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THE 



NECKOLOGY 



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HARVARD COLLEGE. 



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1S69-1872. 



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PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI, 

15V JOHN WILSON AND SON. 

1S72. 



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At the Annual Meeting of the Association of the Alumni of 
Harvard, the following votes were passed : — 

Resolved, That a committee of eleven be appointed by the Chair to prepare a 
notice of deceased Alumni, who shall be empowered to fill vacancies in their 
own number. 

Resolved, That the said committee be requested to complete the records of the 
past two years, as well as of the ensuing year, and at the commencement of 1872 
to have the same printed in pamphlet form and offered for sale. 

Resolved, That, if the sales be not sufficient to defray the cost of said 
pamphlet, the deficiency shall be made up by this Association. 



The President of the Association then appointed the following 
gentlemen to serve on the Committee : — 



JoHJsr Langdon Sibley . 
George Stillman Hillard 
Thomas Bayley Fox . . 
Henry Wheatland . . 
Waldo Higginson . . 
Frederick Augustus Whitney 
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
Samuel Abbott Green . . 
Henry Gardner Denny . . 
William Phineas Upham . . 
KoYAL Whitman Merrill . . 



of the Class of 1825 




1828 




1828 




1832 




1833 




1833 




1811 




1851 




1852 




1856 




1869 



LIST OF DEATHS. 



1869-72. 



1858. Ansel Lamson, April 12, 1868. 

1850. Edmund Lincoln Baylies, Gen- 
eva, Switzerland, December, 1869. 

1857. Josiah Newell Willard, Phila- 
delphia, May 1, 1869. 

1820. John Cole Hayden, M.D., Cam- 
bridge, 1869. 

1808. David Bates, Westborough, 
February 1, 1869. 

1834. Charles Thacher, M.D., Bos- 
ton, March 23, 1869. 

1846. AUyne Weston, New York, 
May 1, 1869. 

1852. Calvin Gates Page, M.D., Bos- 
ton, May 29, 1869. 

1841. Seth Edward Sprague, LL.B., 
Boston, June 22, 1869. 

1855. Charles Frederick Sanger, 
Brooklyn, N.Y., July 2, 1869. 

1829. William Brigham, A.M., Bos- 
ton, July 9, 1869. 

1825. Thomas Sherwin, A.M., Ded- 
ham, July 23, 1869. 

1865. Frederick Ware, Baden-Baden, 
July 24, 1869. 

1865. George Woodbury Swett, M.D., 
Eureka, July 27, 1869. 

1824. Jeremiah Chaplin Stickney, 
Lynn, August 3, 1869. 

1804. Jeremy Stim.son, M.D., Ded- 
ham, August 12, 1869. 

1868. Henry Medill Whitman, A.B., 

; August 29, 1869. 

1821. William Ililliard, LL.D., Bos- 
ton, September 8, 1869. 



1863. Charles WilHam Heaton, M.D., 
South Dedham, September 9, 1869. 

1857. Francis Codman Ropes, Sep- 
tember 15, 1869. 

1868. Daniel Henry Davis, A.B., 
Roxbury, September 18, 1869. 

1832. Rev. Joseph Warren Eaton, 
A.M., Cambridgeport, November 
30, 1869. 

1832 Samuel Parkman Shaw, Paris, 
France, December 7, 1869. 

1826. Edward Southworth, A.M., 
West Springfield, December 11, 
1869. 

1807. Samuel Merrill, A.M., Andover, 
December 23, 1869. 

1822. Thomas Farr Capers, A.M., 

Charleston, S.C, 1870. 
1853. Edward Fiske, A.B., Weston, 

January 31, 1870. 

1853. George Osgood Dalton, M.D., 
Woburn, February, 1870. 

1808. Charles Cotton, M.D., New- 
port, R.I., February 3, 1870. 

1835. Ward Nicholas B.oylston, I\LD., 
Princeton, February 10, 1870. 

1861. Charles Christie Salter, at sea, 
April, 1870. 

1854. Oliver Sliepard Leland, A.B., 
Waltham, April 9, 1870. 

1865. Benjamin Mills Pierce, A.B , 
Ishi)ening, Lake Superior, April 
22, 1870.^ 

1862. John llarvard Ellis, LL.B., 
Boston, May 3, 1870. 



VI 



LIST OF DEATHS. 



ri869-72. 



1819. Joseph Boyden Keyes, A.B., j 
Lowell May 6, 1870. 

1802. James Trecothick Austin, Bos- 
ton, :May 8, 1870. 

1822. Eev. Caleb Stetson, A.M., 
Lexington, May 17, 1870. 

1S13. Benjamin West, A.B.. Provi- 
dence, June 6, 1870. 

1820. Waiiam Bird Harrison, Ampht- ■ 
hiU, Cumberland County, Va.. Sep- 
tember 22, 1870. 

1856. Arthur Amory Eckley, A.B., , 

Paris. Prance, .June 9, lb70. i 

1S47. Eev. Charles Edward Hodges, 

A.M., Dorchester, June 16, 1S70. 
1826. Jerome Xapoleon Bonaparte, 

Baltimore, June 17, 1870. 
1826. Charles Eussell LoweU, A.B., 

Washington, D.C., June 23, 1870. 
1820. Eev. Solomon Adams, A.M., 

Auburndale, July 20, 1870. 
1806. Eev. Ephraim Abbot, A.M., 

Westford, July 21, 1870. 

1866. John Clark, Cambridgeport, 
July 22, 1870. 

1867. Frank Fiske Dinsmoor. Chi- 
cago, July 23, 1870. 

1837. Horace Morison, A.M., Peter- 
borough, 2s.H., August 5, 1870. j 

1833. Moses Kelly, A.B., Cleveland, ' 
Ohio, August 18, 1870. 

1823. George Whitfield Livermore, 
A.M., Colbum, Indiana, August 1 

21. 1870. ^ 

1S2S. ZSorton Thayer. A.B.. Boston, 

September li. 1S70. \ 

1839. Erederick Howard. M.D., j 

Provincetown, September 21, 1870. ' 
1817. Wilham Belcher Glazier, Cin- \ 

cinnati, Ohio, October 25, 1870. ! 
1811. Charles William Dabney. A.B., : 

Malvern, England, December 1^2, 

1870. 
1853. Elbridge Jefferson Cutler, A.B., 

Cambridge, December 27, 1870. 
1806. William Gordon, M.D., Brattle- 
borough, Vt., January 12. 1671. 
1822. John :Mason, M.D., Bangor, 

Me.. Januarv 1. 1871. 



1860. John TreadweU Cole, M.D., 
Charleston. S.C. January 3, 1871. 

1838. Nathan Hale. LL.B.. Boston, 
January 9. 1871. 

1861. Eev. WUHam Eranklin Snow, 
Lawrence. January 11, 1871. 

1S07. David Sears, A.M., Boston, 
January 11, 1871. 

1839. WUliam Drew Whiter, A.B., 
Bayou Sara, La., January 26, 1871. 

1822. Eev. Alonzo Hill. D.D., Wor- 
cester, Eebruary 1, 1871. 

1833. Thomas Bolton, A.B., Cleve- 
land, Ohio, Eebruary 1, 1S71. 

1820. Joseph Palmer, M.D., Boston, 
March 3, 1871. 

1822. Eev. Timothy Darling, A.B., 
Bergen, X.Y., March 16, 1871. 

1819. Charles Carter Lee, Windsor, 
Ya., March 21, 1871. 

1853. Horace Oscar Whittemore, 
A.B., Boston, March 30, 1871. 

1799. Eev. Humphrey Moore, D.D., 
:^inford, X.H., April 9, 1871. 

1829. Eev. Joseph Angler, A.B., 
:Mnton, April 12, 1871. 

1827. Edward Wilham Hook, M.D., 

Algiers, La., May 21, 1871. 
1835. Erederick Augustus Eustis, 

Beaufort, S.C, June 20. 1871. 

1821. Cyrus Briggs, M.D., Salem, 
June 21, 1871. 

1810. George Erancis Chever, April 

7, 1871. 
1S17. Eev. Samuel Joseph ^May, 

Syracuse, July 2, 1871. 
1833. Charles Jackson, Boston, July 

30, 1871. 
1817. Eev. Eeuben Totman Eobin- 

son, Melrose, August 21, 1871. 

1820. Eev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D., 
Eevere, August 26, 1871. 

1861. Charles Duncan Lamb, Boston, 
September 2, 1871. 

1831. William Saxton Morton, Quincy, 
September 21, 1871. 

1830. Joseph Lyman, August, 1871. / 

1832. Thomas Haley Barstow, Grand v/ 
Eapids, ^Michigan, 1871. 



1869-72.] 



LIST OF DEATHS. 



TU 



1869. James Phineas Whitney, Nar- 
ragansett, R.I., September 6, 1871. 

1823. John Bachelder, Reading, July 
7, 1871. 

1870. Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer, 
Boston, October, 1871. 

1836. James Thatcher Hodge, lost on 
Lake Superior, October, 1871. 

1846. Joshua Augustus Swan, Cam- 
bridge, October 31, 1871. 

1822. Frederick Vose, New York, 
N.Y., November 15, 1871. 

1818. Thomas Gadsden, Charleston, 
S.C, October, 1871. 

1843. Edward Morrell, Newport, R.L, 
October, 1871. 

1806. Joseph Green Cogswell, Cam- 
bridge, November 26, 1871. 

1826. Benjamin Cox, Salem, Novem- 
ber 30, 1871. 

1829. Rev. James Thurston, Auburn- 
dale, January 13, 1872. 

1863. William Linder, January 18, 
1872. 

1824. William Gordon Stearns, Cam- 
bridge, January 31, 1872. 

1825. Francis John Higginson, Brook- 
line, March 9, 1872. 

1806. Thomas Pope, New Bedford, 
March 3, 1872. 



1820. Rev. John Adams Williams, 
East Bridgewater, March 15, 1872. 

1843. Roger Brown Hildreth, Spring- 
field, March 26, 1872. 

1859. Jacob Abbot Cram, Chicago, 
April 5, 1872. 

1827. WilHam Bradbury Kingsbury, 
Boston, April 6, 1872. 

1871. Michael Henry Simpson, Flor- 
ence, Italy, April 13, 1872. 

1863. Michael Shepard Webb, San 
Francisco, April 14, 1872. 

1816. John Emerson, Oldtown, Me., 
March 21, 1872. 

1826. Addison Brown, Brattlebor- 
ough, Vt., May 11, 1872. 

1855. Edward Barry Dalton, M.D., 
Santa Barbara, Cal., May 13, 1872. 

1856. John Williams Hudson, Lex- 
ington, June 3, 1872. 

1850. Langdon Williams, Rome, Italy, 
May 9, 1872. 

1866. Samuel Quarles French, May 
27, 1872. 

1851. David Parsons Wilder, Win- 
netka, 111., March 26, 1872. 

1868. Edward Everett Thayer, Cam- 
bridge, June 11, 1872. 

1867. Arthur Jones Loud, Boston, 
June 19, 1872. 



NECROLOGY. 



1869-72. 

1799. — Humphrey Moore, D.D., the son of Humphrey 
and Mary (Sweetzer) Moore and grandson of Paul Moore, of 
Rutland, Mass., was born at Princeton, in the same state, 19 
October, 1778. He was the youngest of four children, two 
daughters and two sons. His first lessons in reading and writ- 
ing were received from his parents. After his ninth year he 
attended the district school, which was taught by Robert B. 
Thomas, author of the Farmer's Almanac, from whom he ac- 
quired a taste for good penmanship. On the death of his 
father in 1790, the care of the farm devolved on him and his 
brother, which seriously abridged his opportunities of attending 
school. His diligence in study awakened the interest of Sam- 
uel Crosset (D.C. 1792), who suggested to his mother that 
this boy be sent to college. This thought soon ripened into 
an earnest purpose in the breast of young Moore to obtain a 
collegiate education. After many discouragements, he obtained 
the consent of his mother, and left home with light heart and 
eager steps to enter Leicester Academy, fifteen miles distant, 
then under the care of Ebenezer Adams, — afterward professor 
in Dartmouth College, — an accomplished instructor. Being 
detained at home the following winter, he pursued his studies, 
reciting in Latin to Leonard Woods, subsequently professor of 
theology at Andover. 

1 



2 yECEOLOGT OF ALOISI [1869-72. 

In July, 1795, he entered Harvard College, where he soon 
gained a character for diligence, personal independence, ready 
wit, and unflinching self-reliance, which was prophetic of his 
subsequent vigor and manliness. TTith rigid economy in the 
use of the property (£100) received from the estate of his 
father and the money received for teaching school, he defrayed 
all his bills at Cambridge. 

He was su::ess:uJ as a teacher, finding employment in suc- 
cessive winters at Sudbary, TTeston, and Bolton. At the 
junior exhibition he delivered an oration in Hebrew. In a 
public discussion held the next year on the question, ^' Is there 
such a faculty of the mind as the moral sense ? " he offended 
the Paculty by an idea or two expressed in general terms on 
government, which were supposed to reflect on their manage- 
ment. For this reason, as he inferred, no part was assigned 
him at Commencement. TVithout waiting for his degree, he 
went to Bath, Me., where he was employed in teaching six 
months. On returning to Princeton, he determined to place 
himself under the care of Kev. Dr. Backus as a student of 
theology. In his family at Somers, Conn., he was associated 
with ^oodrufl", Perry, and Burt. By intense application, he 
attained such proficiency in the prescribed course of study, that 
he obtained license to preach from the Tolland Association in 
June of the next year. As he was not willing to assume the 
fidl responsibilities of a settlement, he preached in several 
towns, supplving the pulpit for a few weeks at a time in Hub- 
bardston, Dracutt, Woburn, and ^Nlilford, X.H. DecKning 
other calls, he at length decided to accept the pastorate at 
Milford, where he was ordained 2 October, 1802 : sermon by 
Eev. E. Dunbar (H.C. 1794). By the terms of the caU, he 
was to receive six hundred dollars settlement, four hundred 
djllars salary, and one hundred dollars pension on his re- 
tirement from active service. 5 April, 1803, he was married 
to Hannah, third daughter of William Peabody, Esq., of MH- 
ford, by whom he had four children, — three danghters and 
a son : two of the daughters are now living. The ministry of 
Mr. Moore was marked by great industry. In the earlier 



1869-72.] OF HARYARD COLLEGE. 6 

years he taught school ; and after taking possession of the 
farm, on which he lived till the close of life, he often had 
students in his family. Seven or eight were sent to him 
from Cambridge ; and others who availed themselves of his 
instructions recognized the value of his training and example. 
During his pastorate, which continued exactly one-third of a 
century, Mr. Moore took an active part in all important ques- 
tions, whether civil, ecclesiastical, or religious, that occupied 
the public attention. He lectured on temperance, peace, and 
agriculture. He set trees by the roadsides, and projected various 
improvements for the benefit of the town. His preaching was 
marked by clear statements, vigorous language, and a logical 
order, often rising into impassioned and earnest address. His 
sermons always bore the impress of his own mind, being more 
the result of patient meditation than of wide reading. The 
church was enlarged and strengthened under his ministry ; three 
hundred and thirty-five persons having united with it in that 
period. In 1830, Mr. Moore was afflicted in the death of his 
wife, who deceased 5 March, get. 51. His second wife, who 
survives him, was Mary J., third daughter of Stephen French, 
of Bedford, N.H. After his dismission, Mr. Moore was em- 
ployed at intervals in supplying the pulpits of neighboring 
churches. In this manner he preached at Hooksett, Wilton, 
South Merrimack, Bedford, and occasionally for other parishes. 
In stature, Mr. Moore was above the average size, compactly 
built, with unusual power of endurance. He excelled in 
athletic feats as a student, and often performed the work of a 
day laborer at haying or harvesting, when making full prepara- 
tions for the pulpit at night. As a farmer, he was eminently 
successful, taking several premiums for improved crops and 
general good management. He wrote valuable essays and 
addresses on agricultural subjects, acting as one of the editors of 
the New Hampshire Agricultural Repository, to the first No. of 
which he contributed one hundred and thirty-six pages. He wiis 
honored by the confidence of his fellow-citizens, by whom he 
was chosen to represent the town in the legislature of 1840. 
Here he introduced a bill for the encouragement of agriculture, 



4 NECROLOGY OF ALOIXI [1869-72. 

which, passed the house, but was rejected by the senate. In 
1841, he took a seat in the senate, having been elected by the 
district in which he lived, when he renewed his efforts in behalf 
of a State Board of Aofriculture. In 1845, the honorarv defrree 
of doctor of theology was conferred on him by the Trustees of 
Alleghany College, Pa. In addition to his writings on agricul- 
ture, Mt. Moore was a frequent contributor to the exercises of 
the HoUis Association of ministers. He also prepared more than 
thii'ty essays and lectures for the Milford Lyceum. 

To the present generation, Rev. Dr. Moore is best known as 
a venerable father in the ministry, an active friend of all genu- 
ine reform, a public-spirited citizen always interested in the 
affau's of the town, the church, and the nation ; eminently happy 
in his domestic relations, surrounded by the comforts' of an 
ample estate acquired by his own management, and given to 
hospitality with an unstinted hand. His vigorous health, con- 
sistent piety, and studious habits united in forming a character 
of rare worth and dignity. He died on 8 April, 1871, with- 
out knowing sickness, at the ripe age of ninety-two years, five 
months, and twenty days. His funeral was attended in the Con- 
gregational meeting-house, in the erection of which he shared a 
generous portion of the exj^ense. Eev. Messrs. Ayer and 
Perry, with Drs. TTallace and Davis, joined with the pastor. 
Rev. G. E. Freeman, in the solemnities. A sermon commemo- 
rative of his Kfe and services was delivered by ]Mr. Freeman on 
the following Sabbath. Appropriate notices in the form of reso- 
lutions, testifying to their sense of the Christian excellence of 
Dr. Moore, appeared in the minutes of the General Association, 
and also of the Hollis Association, of which he was for half a 
century an active member. 

The following list contains the published writings of Rev. 
Dr. Moore : 

1. Fast-day Discourse, delivered at MiLford, 11 April, 1805. 
2. Funeral Sermon of Rev. Timothy Fuller, delivered 4 July. 
1805. 3. A Discourse before the Musical Society of TTdton, 
X.H., delivered :?2 January, 18')". 4. A Xew-year's Sermon 
preached at Milford, January, 1810. 5. Fast-day Sermon de- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 5 

livered 20 August, 1812. 6. Sermon at tlie Dedication of 
Meeting-house in Dunstable, N.H., 4 November, 1812. 
7. Fast- day Discourse, 12 January, 1815. 8. An Oration in 
Celebration of the Peace of 1815, between Great Britain and 
the United States. 9. Fast-day Discourse, 13 April, 1815. 
10. Thanksgiving Sermon, 25 December, 1817. 11. A Reply 
to Kev. Stephen Chapin's Letters on the Mode and Subjects of 
Baptism. 12. Ordination Sermon preached at Leominster, 24 
January, 1821. 13. Address before the Hollis Branch of the 
Massachusetts Peace Society, 4 July, 1821. 14. Funeral 
Sermon of Rev. Dr. Burnap. 15. A Treatise on the Divine 
Nature, exhibiting the Distinction of the Father, Son, and Holy 
Ghost (pp. 356), Boston, S. T. Armstrong, 1824. 16. Tem- 
perance Discourse, November, 1826. 17. Temperance Dis- 
course, July, 1836. 18. Farewell Sermons preached at Milford, 
10 January, 1836. 19. Oration delivered at Bedford, N.H., 
at request of Washington Benevolent Society. In addition to 
these, he wrote several agricultural essays. (See "New-Hamp- 
shire Agricultural Repository.") 

1802. — James Trecothick Austin, son of Jonathan Lor- 
ing Austin (H.C. 1766) and Hannah (Ivers) Austin, was born 
in Boston, 10 January, 1784. He was fitted for college partly 
by Caleb Bingham, partly at Andover, and partly at the Boston 
Latin School. In 1793 he received a Franklin medal at the 
grammar school kept by Master Bingham. He entered college 
in April, 1799, at the third quarter of the freshman year, his 
father thinking him too young to enter with the class. He was 
a hard student in college, and held a high rank in a class of 
more than common ability. At the second exhibition of the 
senior year he had an oration, and the salutatory at Commence- 
ment, — the third part in rank. Upon taking his second degree 
in 1805, he had the valedictory. On leaving college, he 
entered the office of William Sullivan as a student, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1805. In 1807 he was appointed, by 
Gov. Sullivan, County Attorney of Suffolk, which office lie 
held till 1832. In 1810 he was appointed by his father-in-law. 
Gov. Gerry, one of his aids. In 1811 he was appointed by 



6 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

Gov. Gerry a director of the State Prison > which appointment 
was renewed by Gov. Brooks in 1820. In 1814 he was 
appointed volunteer aid to Gen. Dearborn. In 1816 he was 
appointed by Pres. Madison agent for managing the business 
under the 41st article of the treaty of Ghent. In 1820 he was 
a member of the convention for revising the constitution of Mas- 
sachusetts. In 1824 he was one of the board of visitors to 
attend the annual exhibition of the cadets at West Point, on 
which occasion he delivered an address to the class, which the 
board asked him to publish, but he declined. In 1825, 1826, 
and 1831, he was a member of the United-States senate. In 
1825 he was appointed by Gov. Lincoln a commissioner to settle 
the boundary line between Massachusetts and Connecticut, east 
of Connecticut Piver. In 1828 he was chosen an overseer of 
Harvard College. In 1832 he was appointed by Gov. Lincoln 
attorney-general of Massachusetts, which office he held by suc- 
cessive appointments till 1843, when it was abolished. In 1835 
he was president of the Suffolk Bar Association. In 1831 he 
delivered the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cam- 
bridge. In 1835 he received the honorary degree of doctor of 
laws from Harvard College. He was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society and of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Mechanic Association. In September, 1843, he went with his 
wife and daughter to Europe, Avhere he remained till the spring of 
1846. While in the Catholic countries of Europe, he received 
marked attention from many of the dignitaries of the Catholic 
Church, on account of the energy and ability he showed in the 
prosecution of the rioters who destroyed the Ursuline convent 
in Charlestown, in 1834. Mr. Austin died at Boston, of old 
age, 8 May, 1870, being, with a single exception, the last sur- 
vivor of his class. He was a man of various ability and accom- 
plishment, and made his mark as a lawyer, a politician, and a 
man of letters. In early life he was a stanch republican of the 
old school, and living in a strongly federal community it 
required no little force of character to be faithful to his convic- 
tions. After the union of parties at the election of his friend 
and classmate, Gov. Lincoln, in 1825, he became a national 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 7 

republican, and adhered to that organization when its name was 
changed to whig. His most important literary work was his 
life of his father-in-law, Elbridge Gerry, in two octavo volumes, 
published in Boston in 1828 and 1829. Besides this, he pub- 
lished two Fourth-of-July orations (Lexington, 1815, Boston, 
1829) ; an address before the Massachusetts Society for the 
Suppression of Intemperance, 27 May, 1830; an address before 
the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association, 3 October, 
1839 ; three pamphlets and a speech on the slavery question ; 
and several professional arguments and official opinions. He 
was also an occasional contributor to the "Christian Examiner" 
and " Law Reporter," and furnished a life of his father to Lor- 
ing's "The Hundred Boston Orators." Mr. Austin married, 
2 October, 1806, Catharine, daughter of Elbridge Gerry (H.C. 
1762), who died 9 June, 1850, in Boston. Their children 
were : Ivers James, born in Boston, 14 February, 1808, a grad- 
uate of West Point in 1828 ; Elbridge Gerry, born in Boston, 
10 October, 1810, was graduated at Harvard in 1829, and died 
at JS^ahant, 23 July, 1854 ; Maria Cornelia Eitchie, born in 
Boston, 8 March, 1821, and died 6 December, 1864, being then 
the wife of G. H. Lyman, M.D. 

1804. — Dr. Jeremv Stimson died in Dedham, Mass., 12 
August, 1869, aged S6 years and 2 months. He was the son 
of Jeremy Stimson and Anna (Jones) Stimson, and was born 
in Hopkinton, Mass., 17 October, 1783. His father was a 
physician, and his mother was daughter of John Jones, of Hop- 
kinton, Mass. He entered Brown University, where he re- 
mained about two years, when he left, and entered the junior 
class in Harvard University, where he graduated in 1804. 
After his graduation he went to Uxbridge, Mass., and studied 
medicine under the instruction of Dr. Willard. After finishing 
his studies, he established himself in Dedham, Mass. He ac- 
quired an extensive practice, was highly esteemed as a skilful 
physician, and particularly distinguished for sound judgment, 
and was universally respected and beloved. 

He married, 8 September, 1808, Hopestill Godfrey, of ]\Iil- 
ford, Mass., who was born 13 February, 1790, and had chil- 



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[1869- 



dren : Emily Stimson, born 25 July, 1809. who married John 
Gardner, of Boston, Mass., 3 September, 1835 ; Caroline Stim- 
son, born 29 September, 1811, who married Edward Wight, 
26 September, 1832 : Abigail Stimson, born 7 February, 1814, 
who married Marshall Sears Perry, M.D., 2 April, 1833 : Ben- 
jamin Godfrey Stimson, born 19 March, 1816, who married 
Lavinia Jane Turner, — she died before him, — and Benjamin 
afterwards married Cordelia Ives ; Edward Stimson (H.C. 1843), 
born 29 October, 1823, married Sarah Tufts Richardson 13 July, 
1848, who died, and he married a second wife, Charlotte Leland ; 
Charlotte Ann Stimson, born 11 July, 1830, married, 4 October, 
1848, Gustare Hedman Eissell. 

Dr. Jeremy Stimson's wife died 21 September, 1856 ; and 
6 October, 1857, he married Mary Parker, who was born 25 July, 
1787. 

He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and 
the honorary degree of doctor of medicine was conferred upon 
him by Harvard University in 1852. He was for many years 
president of the Dedham Bank, Mass. His habits were domes- 
tic, and he was very fond of literary pursuits. 

Two obituary notices appeared, one in the " Christian Eegis- 
ter,'"' and another in the "Boston Journal." 

1806. — AVillia:vi Goedox, son of TTilliam and Prances 
(Atherton) Gordon, was born at Amherst, X.H., 28 February, 
1788. He was fitted for college at Exeter, and entered Har- 
vard College in 1802. After graduation, he studied law with 
his uncle, Charles H. Atherton, and in due time was admitted 
to practice. He was in the practice of his profession at Peter- 
borough, X.H., in 1809 and 1810. He then removed to 
Keene, where he lived from 1811 to 1816. Upon the marriage 
of his mother to Benjamin TTest, an eminent lawyer of Charles- 
town, X.H., which took place in 1816, Mr. Gordon removed 
to that place, and became an inmate of his stepfather's family. 
In 1836 the mental malady first appeared, which made it neces- 
sary to remove him to the McLean Asylum in Charlestown, 
Mass. After a few months, he improved sufiiciently to return 
home, but in 1839 went back to the same asvlum. He after- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 9 

wards lived a few years, in great seclusion, in the village of 
Stoddard ; and from there, in 1842, was taken to the asylum in 
Brattleborough, Vt. After passing the summer there, he went 
home, apparently cured; but returned in 1848, and again in 
1859, remaining there till his death, which took place 12' Jan- 
uary, 1871. His derangement was of a mild type ; and during 
the last years of his life he mingled freely with the agreeable 
society which, in the summer, resorted to Brattleborough as a 
watering-place. He was a general favorite, from the kindliness 
of his temper and the graceful courtesy of his manners. He 
was a lover of nature, and interested in agriculture and horti- 
culture. His favorite occupation in summer was the care of the 
garden attached to the asylum at Brattleborough ; and in the 
winter a taste for reading prevented his hours of solitude from 
hanging heavily on his hands. 

1806. — Joseph Green Cogswell, son of Francis and 
Anstiss (Manning) Cogswell, was born in Ipswich, Mass., 
27 September, 1786. He was prepared for college partly at 
Ipswich, partly at an academy in Atkinson, N.H., and partly 
at Exeter, N.H. He entered Harvard College in 1802. At 
the end of his college course he made a voyage to India, as 
supercargo, and on his return began his law studies at Dedham. 
In 1809 he made a business voyage to the Mediterranean. He 
resumed his law studies in Boston on his return, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1812. He began in that year the practice 
of his profession in Belfast, Me., but in 1813 was appointed 
Latin tutor in Harvard College, and held that appointment for 
two years. The period from 1815 to 1821 was passed in travel 
and study in Europe. From 1821 to 1823 he was professor of 
mineralogy in Harvard College, and librarian. From 1823 to 
1834 he was one of the principals of a boarding school for boys, 
established by himself and Mr. Bancroft at Round Hill, North- 
ampton, Mass. From 1834 to 1836 he had charge of a semi- 
nary of education in Raleigh, N.C. From 1836 to 1838 he 
was travelling or residing in Europe. From 1838 to 1862 he 
lived in New York, residing in the family of Mr. J. J. Astor 
from 1841 to 1848. He was appointed librarian of the Astor 

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10 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

Library in 1854, and held the appointment till 1862. But, for 
many years before he received the appointment, his time and 
thoughts were mainly given to the interests of this institution. 
From the beginning, Mr. Astor consulted him upon every step 
takeil in the accomplishment of his design to found a public 
library in New York. In the service of the library he made 
five trips to Europe. Most of the books of the library were 
bought by him, a duty for which he was peculiarly well fitted, 
alike from his great bibliographical knowledge and his excellent 
business faculty. In 1863 he removed to Cambridge, where he 
continued to reside till his death, which took place 26 Novem- 
ber, 1871. 

Mr. Cogswell was a man of great energy, of remarkable ac- 
tivity, both mental and physical, and various accomplishments. 
His range of knowledge was wide, but his favorite pursuits were 
botany, mineralogy, and bibliography. He was a man of great 
purity of life and conversation, of amiable character, greatly 
beloved by his friends ; and all his pupils were his friends. 

He married, 17 April, 1812, Mary, daughter of Gov. John 
T. Oilman, of New Hampshire, who died at Exeter, N.H., 16 
July, 1813. There was no child of the marriage. A more 
full sketch of Mr. Cogswell's moral and intellectual character 
may be found in the Boston "Daily Advertiser," 28 November, 
1871. 

1806. — Eev. Ephraim Abbot was born 28 September, 1779, 
at Newcastle, Me., the oldest of nine children of Benjamin and 
Sarah (Brown) Abbot. His father, by trade a joiner and 
farmer, took a part in the revolutionary war, and fought at 
Bunker Hill. 

Soon after his birth, his parents changed their residence to 
a place now called Alney, in Maine, where he attended, in his 
fifth year, a winter school, taught by a Mr. Collier, an English- 
man. In 1784 the family moved to Concord, N.H., and 
there he spent the remainder of his boyhood and early youth. 
Deeply interested in religious subjects, he desired to obtain a 
liberal education, with a view to preparing himself for the minis- 
try. In the summers of 1798 and 1799 he employed his 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 11 

leisure hours in study, under the direction of Rev. Asa McFar- 
hxnd, teaching school in the intervening winter. He entered 
Phillips Exeter Academy in 1800, and Harvard College in 1802. 
Soon after the commencement of the first term, his class had a 
meeting, of which he was chosen presiding officer. He took the 
opportunity to address his classmates in relation to the conduct 
of their college life, urging upon them the importance of so- 
briety and a faithful discharge of duty. They were well pleased 
with his remarks, and from that time began to speak of him as 
" Father " Abbot. He probably had the sympathy of most of 
his auditors, for the class appears to have been unusually free 
from disorderly elements. Parts were assigned to him in various 
public exhibitions, the most important of them, perhaps, being 
the calculation and projection of the total eclipse of the sun on 
16 June, 1806. Near the beginning of his last term at Cam- 
bridge, he took charge of a private subscription academy in 
Charlestown, Mass., and continued at its head until March, 
1808. He then went to Andover, and studied, under the direc- 
tion of Rev. Jonathan French, till the following September, 
when he entered the Theological Seminary. He remained there 
two years, and was graduated with the first regular class in 
1810. 

Although endowed by nature with great vital force, and 
possessed in his younger days of unusual bodily strength and 
activity, he was subject to frequent attacks of illness. After 
he left Andover, ill health prevented his active employment 
for several months; but in June, 1811, he accepted (from the 
Society for Propagating the Gospel among Indians and others) 
a mission in the eastern part of Maine. Owing to the ap- 
proaching war with England, he closed his labors there the fol- 
lowing spring, and returned to Boston in May. 

After preaching three months in Coventry, Ct., he was a mis- 
sionary in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. 29 October, 
1813, he was ordained as pastor of the Congregational Church 
in Greenland, N.II. He married, 5 January, 1814, Mary 
Holyoke Pearson, daughter of Rev. Eliphalct Pearson, LL.D., 
and of Priscilla (Holyoke) Pej^rson. Her mother was a daugh- 



12 XECEOLOGY OF ALOINI [1869-72. 

ter of EeT. Edward Holvoke, President of Harvard College, 
great-grand-daughter of Eev. John Eogers, President of Har- 
yard College, and a lineal descendant of John Eogers the 
martyr. 

^Ir. Abbot's pastorate in Greenland lasted fifteen years, 
during which time he contributed much to the religious and in- 
tellectual improvement of the society and town. He interested 
himself actively in behalf of the public schools, and on 1 De- 
cember, 1825. added to his ministerial cares the charge, as Pre- 
ceptor and Trustee, of the Brackett Academy, then newly 
established. His relations, both with the parish and with the 
academy, were uniformly harmonious and cordial; but in 1828 
the failing health of his wife, together with his o^vn infirmities, 
rendered a change of residence expedient. He therefore, early 
in the autumn of that year, dissolved his connection with the 
academy and the chiu:ch, and removed to TTestford, Mass., 
where his wife died 15 July, 1829. 

In Xovember, 1828, he became principal in the TTestford 
Academy, and continued in that position nearly nine years. 

He married a second time 21 January, 1830. His wife was 
Abigail TThituig Bancroft, a daughter of Amos Bancroft, M.D., 
(H.C. 1791). and Abigail (TThiting) Bancroft, of Groton, 
Mass. 

His children by this marriage were Abba Maria, born 14 
Xovember, 1830, died 30 October, 1831: Lucy M. B., born 
10 April, 1832; Amos B., born 11 November, 1833, died 
25 January, 1835 : Ephraim E. P., born 9 August, 1835, 
died 20 April, 1811: George E. H. (H.C. 18-30), born 15 
February, 1838; Sarah B., born 13 July, 1811. 

Coromencing in May, 1831, he usually supplied the desk of 
the First Congregational Chmrch in TTestford (Unitarian), 
either personally or by exchange, until 1^35 : and agaia, from 
about I'l^lO to Jime, 1845. During the latter part of his life 
he had no pastoral charge: but for many years, and until the 
infirmities of age incapacitated him for labor of this kind, he 
performed, as occasion demanded, in TTestford and the neigh- 
boring towns,, the various offices pertaining to his ministerial 
profession. 



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In the fall of 1848, having recently lost the greater part of 
his property, he sold most of his real estate in Westford and 
removed to Harvard, Mass., where he remained until April, 
1850. He then returned to Westford, and cultivated a small 
farm during the remainder of his days. Agriculture was one 
of his favorite pursuits, and he found its practice more condu- 
cive than any sedentary employment to his health, which was 
never robust. He died of pneumonia, 21 July, 1870, in the 
ninety-first year of his age. 

Mr. Abbot's religious views were substantially those of the 
Unitarians of his day. He delighted in the study of the Bible, 
and was accustomed even in extreme old age, and within a 
short time of his death, to read it critically in the original lan- 
guages. 

For several successive terms he held a commission as justice 
of the peace. While in active life he commonly served on the 
school committee ; and in 1839 represented the town of West- 
ford in the state legislature. He was an ardent and active 
friend of the temperance cause. 

His principal literary undertaking was the preparation, in 
company with Kev. Abiel Abbot, D.D., of "A Genealogical 
Register of the Abbot Family," published in Boston in 1847. 
He was a corresponding member of the New-England Historic- 
Genealogical Society, and of the New- York Genealogical and 
Biographical Society, a member of the African Colonization 
Society, and a life-member of the American Bible Society. 

Those who knew Mr. Abbot will recall many traits of his 
character which cannot be delineated in this brief record. 
They will, for example, remember his genial humor and fund of 
anecdote, his meekness and abounding charity, his religious 
earnestness and unworldly wisdom, his generous self-sacrifice, 
and his never-faltering resolution to "stand in his lot." 

Nor will they have forgotten those qualities of manner and 
address which marked him a Christian gentleman of the old 
school. 

1807. — Samuel Merrill, died 24 December, 18G9, at 
Andover, Mass., aged 83 years, and was unmarried. 



14 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

Mr. ]Memn was born in Plaistow, X.H., where his father, 
a man of marked ability and learning, and of singular simplicity, 
purity, strength, and firmness of character, was long the settled 
minister. He was prepared for college at Philhps Academy in 
Exeter, N.H., 1801, under the instruction of Joseph S. Buck- 
minster, and with his brother, the late Judge James Merrill of 
Boston, was graduated at Harvard University in the class 
of 1807. He soon after began the study of law in the office of 
the Hon. John Yarnum, of Haverhill, and in 1811 was admitted 
a member of the bar of Essex County, and opened an office with 
the late Samuel Farrar, Esq., at Andover, where he continued 
in his profession for nearly sixty years. He represented his 
town and county in both branches of the legislature, and acted 
as a local magistrate until he declined further service. He was 
often called to fill places of honor, trust, and confidence, and 
was president of the Merrimac Fire Insurance Company almost 
from its organization, in 1828, to the day of his death. He 
was a well-instructed lawyer, of sound judgment, a learned 
scholar, a just magistrate, a modest gentleman, a firm friend, 
an honored citizen, and a devout Christian. Such is a faint 
outline of the life and character of Mr. Merrill, and yet it fails 
to convey any just idea of the man as he was known by his 
friends. There was an individuality about him, genial, delicate, 
and cultivated, which pervaded his thoughts and actions, giving 
a peculiar charm to all association with him. 

Early imbued with a love for classical studies, under the in- 
fluence of the accomplished Buckminster, Mr. Merrill became a 
profound and accurate classical scholar, but even his critical 
knowledge of the Greek and Latin tongues was surpassed by 
his fine appreciation of the best classical writers. Nothing 
could be more agreeable and instructive than to hear him point 
out the peculiar, delicate, and poetical beauty, expressed or im- 
plied, in a single word of Homer or of Virgil. Perhaps his 
reading would not be called extensive in a college professor, 
but it was accurate, thorough, and oft repeated. Homer, Yirgil, 
Horace, and the Greek tragic poets, Herodotus, Thucydides, 
Livy, Cicero, and Tacitus, formed the circle in which he ran 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 15 

with ever-increasing pleasure. Among prose writers, the ornate 
copiousness of Cicero never failed to excite his admiration. But 
perhaps the inflexible virtue and sententious brevity of Tacitus 
came nearest to his own manner of thinking and speaking, and 
to him he devoted the greatest attention, especially during his 
latter years. He was equally select in his reading. All the old 
and best English authors he knew, as few men know them. 
He was not only familiar with their words and ideas, but he had 
imbibed the very color and flavor, as it were, of their minds. 
With Iano;uao'e as felicitous as the words of his o^reat favor- 
ites, he could point out their characteristics, their excellency, 
beauty, and power. In all this there was so little of pretence, 
that there was hardly the appearance of learning. Edmund 
Burke filled him with wonder and veneration. Probably few 
men of his day so well understood all the writings of Mr. Burke. 
With history he was especially familiar ; he could explain and 
illustrate at a moment's notice politics, military or diplomatic 
events in the careers of Napoleon and Wellington. 

Mr. Merrill had nice observation of men and things, with 
clear perceptions. His wit flowed in a gentle current, but 
nothing could be more apt than his quaint method and curious 
delineations of character or incident ; while without the use of 
sarcasm he could denounce oppression, vice, and irreligion, in 
language of terrible energy, exposing disguises in all their de- 
formity or folly, by a terse sentence. His qualities of mind 
were affirmative and positive, with infinite charity for others' 
feelings. A manly sentiment, a sensibility to principle, together 
with a chastity of honor, peculiarly distinguished him. He loved 
the contemplative arts, and was skilful in sports and games, 
engaging in them with a genial zest. A contemporary said of 
him, that " if Charles Lamb and Samuel Merrill had familiarly 
known each other, it would be hard to say which would have 
imparted the greater delight." 

1808.— Moses Duaper, son of Philip (H.C. 1780) and 
Mehitable (Kingsbury) Draper, was born at Dedham, Mass., 
5 January, 1791. He entered college in 1804. After gradua- 
tion, he taught school for about a year in Marblehead, and then 



16 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

entered upon the study of tlie law in Boston, and began the 
practice of his profession in 1813. Here he continued during 
his whole life, always residing in Dorchester. In 1841 he 
married the widow of his brother, Jeremiah Draper (H.C. 
1808), whose maiden name was Sabrina TTaill. He died of 
apoplexy 5 Xovember, 1870. 

1808. — Charles Cottox. M.D.. was born at Plymouth, 
Mass., 7 October, 1788, and was the son of Rosirer Cotton, 
M.D., and of Priscilla (^.Jackson) Cotton. He graduated with his 
class in 1S'j8 : studied medicine with James Thatcher, M.D., of 
his native town ; entered the United- States Xavy as surgeon, in 
1812, and served in that capacity till his resignation in 1823. 
He was on board the United-States ship "Hornet" during her 
engagement with the British man-of-war " Peacock," and is said 
to have been threatened with arrest by Commodore Bainbridge, 
his commander, for excessive self-exposure during the contest. 
He was on board the " Constitution," when she conveyed our 
minister, Mr. Jay, to France. He was afterwards stationed at 
the Chaidestown (Mass.) Xavy Yard, and had charge, still 
later, of the Xaval Hospital in Xewport, R.I. This was in 
1^17 ; and he married during that year Mary, eldest daughter 
of Captain Stephen J. Xorman, of Xewport. After his resig- 
nation (in 1823), he remained in Xewport, occupied as a physi- 
cian, surgeon, and druggist, until his death, which took place 
3 February, 1870. He had been subject, for many yeai^, to 
palpitation of the heart, and finally died of this disease. 

Dr. Cotton had in all fourteen children, six of whom, with 
his wife, survive him. His only surviving son, TTilliam H. 
Cotton, is his successor in business. Another son, not now liv- 
ing (Stephen Rositer Cotton), was for a time one of the judges 
of the TTisconsin Circuit Court. Dr. Cotton was a meoiber of 
the Masonic order, of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and 
of the Pilgrim Society of Massachusetts. He delivered the ora- 
tion at Plymouth, when a portion of the "rock'* was removed 
from its original position to the grounds of the society. An 
obituary notice of him appeai'ed in "Xewport (R.I.j) Mercury" 
of 5 Februarv. 1870. 



1869-72.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 17 

1809. — Eev. Joseph Field, D.D., was born in Boston 
8 December, 1788. He was son of Joseph Field — merchant on 
Long Wharf, who was a member of the society worshipping in 
Church Green, in which he held the office of deacon forty years 
or more — and of Elizabeth Wales Field, whose maiden name 
was Elizabeth Wales Bigelow. He studied under Dr. Gardner, 
entered Harvard College in 1805, from which he graduated in 
1809. His theological studies were under Dr. Kirkland. He 
served as chaplain in the army in 1812, in the Third Regiment 
Infantry. In 1815 he received and accepted an invitation to 
settle as pastor over the first Congregational Society in Weston, 
which relation he held to the close of his life. But in 1865, at 
the close of fifty years of his ministry, he resigned its active 
duties. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1840. 
He was at one time a member of the Board of Overseers of 
Harvard College. He was a member of the American Bible 
Society, and a member of the American Unitarian Association. 

In 1816 he was married to Charlotte M. Leatham, an English 
lady, daughter of John Leatham, Esq., of London. They 
became the parents of six children, only two of whom are living 
at this date, — a son and a daughter. Dr. Field died at Wes- 
ton 5 November, 1869. 

Dr. Field was honored and beloved by his people and by a 
wide circle of friends for his genial spirit and amiable social 
qualities, in which there was a large infusion of sprightliness 
and humor. He wrote with ease : his sermons were terse, clear, 
and compact ; and in the day of his highest intellectual vigor 
he was regarded in his own vicinity as among the favorite 
preachers of his denomination. He speculated very little, the 
bent of his mind being mainly practical. He published little. 
At the semi-centennial of his ministry, when he resigned its active 
duties, he preached a sermon, giving a brief review of his min- 
istry, which was printed. 

1809. — Nathaniel Whitman, son of John Whitman, 
remarkable for having reached the advanced age of one hundred 
and six years, was born in East Bridgewater 25 December, 
1785. He was led to enter college by reason of an accident, at 

3 



18 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

the age of seventeen, which unfitted him from laboring on a 
farm. He is presumed to have been a good scholar in college, 
from the fact that after graduation he was appointed tutor in 
Bowdoin College. He studied divinity, and in 1814 was settled 
as colleague with the Rev. Henry Cummins, D.D., of Billerica, 
Mass. After about twenty years' ministry there he resigned the 
pastoral charge, and was settled first at Wilton, N.H., after- 
wards at Calais, Maine, and finally, in 1845, at East Bridge- 
water, his native place, where he continued about eight years. 
He then resigned his office, and withdrew to the pleasant village 
of Deerfield, Mass., where he passed the evening of his days in 
tranquil repose, preaching occasionally as his health and strength 
permitted. He died 1 October, 1869, having nearly completed 
his eighty-fourth year. He was respected for his Christian vir- 
tues, and beloved for his genial and social qualities. His ser- 
mons were plain and practical, and he was faithful in the 
discharge of his pastoral duties. He was twice married. The 
maiden name of his first wife was Holman ; of his second, 
Pollard : both were of Bolton, Mass. He had several children, 
of whom the oldest is Judge Whitman, of Cincinnati. 

1811. — Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, son of Eben- 
ezer Frothingham and Joanna Langdon, was born in Boston, 
23 July, 1793, in Marshall's Lane, at the north part of the 
city. The "Boston Stone" was, and still is, at the corner of 
the large square wooden house occupied by the family, which 
was numerous both in sons and daughters. He was a boy of 
quiet, studious habits, and had his early education at the Boston 
schools of the period. He entered Harvard College at the age 
of fourteen years, and ranked with the first three of his class. 

There was a strong mutual attachment, which was life-long, 
between him and Dr. Joseph McKean, tlie professor of rhetoric ; 
and in 1812, when but nineteen years of age, he received the 
appointment of preceptor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard. 

While performing the duties of this office, he was preparing 
himself for the ministry; and in 1815 accepted a call to the 
pastorate of the First Church in Boston. Here he attached to 
himself a united parish, to which he ministered for thirty-five 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 19 

years ; resigning his post in 1850, in consequence of failing 
strength. 

His cono^reo:ation included a laro^e number of scholars and 
writers, among whom were Charles Francis Adams, George 
Bancroft, Joseph T. Buckingham, Edward Everett, William H. 
Prescott, and Charles Sprague. He married, in 1818, Ann 
Gorham Brooks, daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks, of Boston. 
He had seven children, six of whom, four sons and two daugh- 
ters, are now living. 

Dr. Frothingham bore his part in the transactions of his time. 
He was for many years a member of the board of overseers of 
Harvard College, and received from his Alma Mater, in 1836, 
the degree of D.D. ; of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and other asso- 
ciations of a literary or religious character. Besides the frequent 
publication of discourses at the request of his parishioners, and 
many minor productions at diiFerent times, he printed in 1852 
a volume entitled "Sermons in the order of a Twelvemonth," 
which are good examples of his best professional efforts ; always 
finished with painstaking, and breathing a lofty strain of Chris- 
tian thought and feeling. 

He was by natural inclination a student, very fond of his 
library. Asa scholar, he had in his profession no superior, — 
scarcely a rival. A learned theologian, familiar with the Latin 
and Greek classics, well versed in the modern lano^uao-es and 
their literatures, in richness and extent of intellectual culture 
he stood pre-eminent among his brethren. In their assemblings 
and discussions his word was waited for, as sure to be the most 
significant and luminous utterance of the hour.* 

He frequently put his thoughts into verse ; his contributions 
to hymns for public worship being numerous, and among the 
best. He also made a valuable addition to lyric literature, by 
translating from the German the finest old hymns. These are 
admirably done, following closely the rhythm of the originals. 

* From the Memoir, by F. IL Hedge. 



20 NECROLOGY OF ALUBINI [1869-72. 

He also published, at different times, two volumes, which he 
modestly called "Metrical Pieces." 

He visited Europe three times ; once in 1826, again in 1849, 
and finally with his wife and daughters in 1859. 

In the last years of his life he sustained one of the greatest 
afflictions, — the loss of sight. In this great grief, during five 
years, his Christian fortitude and manliness never forsook him. 
While he retained his powers, he bore up and worked on to the 
very end, proving by his example the force of the great truths 
he had passed the best years of his life in teaching. 

He died in Boston, 4 April, 1870, in the seventy-seventh 
year of his age. At the funeral services in the First Church, 
his eulogy was spoken by Rev. Dr. Frederic H. Hedge ; and the 
same friendly hand prepared a memoir for the Massachusetts 
Historical Society. To these performances a reference may be 
had for a delineation of Dr. Frothingham's intellectual and 
moral qualities. 

1811. — Solomon Davis Townsenb was bom in Boston, 
1 March, 1793. His father, David Townsend (H.C. 1770), 
physician and surgeon, served in the army of the Ee volution ; 
and subsequently, for about thirty years, was surgeon of the 
naval hospital at Charlestown. His mother's maiden name was 
Elizabeth Davis. 

He entered Harvard College from the Boston Latin School, 
at the age of fourteen. In college he was a quiet, industrious, 
sober young man. He studied his profession first in the medical 
school in Philadelphia, and afterwards in Boston, where he 
received his degree. 

He entered the navy as surgeon ; went with the fleet under 
Commodore Bainbridge to the Mediterranean, to chastise the 
Algerines. He remained in the navy three years, then became 
a medical practitioner in Boston ; also assisting his father at the 
naval hospital in Charlestown. He was for twenty-five years 
surgeon in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and eight or ten 
years president of the board of directors of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary ; also consulting surgeon of 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 21 

the Boston City Hospital, and member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society. 

He married, 5 October, 1819, Catherine Wendell Davis, 
daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Outram) Davis. 

He died at 18 Somerset Street, Boston, where he had lived 
for thirty-nine years, 19 September, 1869, of heart disease, 
after a short illness. He w^as an unselfish, honest man, very 
retiring and diffident, shrinking from all public life and honors. 

"All who knew him intimately," says an obituary notice, 
"can testify to the great kindness of his heart, the strict integ- 
rity of his character, and the Christian spirit that pervaded his 
whole life. 

"In all the relations of life, as a devoted husband, fond par- 
ent, benevolent citizen, and the 'good physician' who cheerfully 
gave his services to the poor, and as a consistent Christian man. 
Dr. Townsend stands unrivalled. His calm, dignified bearing 
was one manifestation of that beautiful Christian faith which 
sustained him in the closing hours of his life, and found expres- 
sion in his dying words, ' I put my trust in the Lord Jesus 
Christ.' " 

1813. — Henry Warren was the fourteenth child of Dr. 
John Warren, first professor of anatomy and surgery in Harvard 
College, and of Abigail Warren, daughter of Hon. John Collins, 
of Newport, governor of Rhode Island. He was born in Bos- 
ton, 13 May, 1795. He was fitted for college partly at the 
Latin school and partly at a private school kept by the Rev. 
Dr. Gardiner. He entered college in 1809. He had a high 
rank in his class, and was chosen into the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society. After leaving college, he began the study of law 
in the office of William Sullivan, and was admitted to the 
bar in due course, in 1816, and opened an office in Boston. 
In 1818 he became a member of a literary and social club, in 
which, among others, were W. H. Prescott, J. G. Palfrey, Jared 
Sparks, Theophilus Parsons, and William Spooner. They had 
stated meetings once a fortnight at each others houses, and each 
read in turn an original essay or story ; after which, a discussion 
and general conversation followed. At an early period it 



22 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

was determined to select some of their compositions for tlie 
press. Mr. Prescott was chosen editor; and the first number 
of " The Club Room," which was to appear in monthly parts, 
appeared 5 February, 1820. The introductory article, written 
with a good deal of humor by Mr. Warren, was considered 
among the best. Only four numbers appeared, and it expired 
on 19 July following. About this time Mr. Warren, at the 
request of the Massachusetts Temperance Society, delivered an 
address on temperance, before a large audience in Dr. Porter's 
church in Roxbury. Mainly from difiSdence and a sensitive 
temperament, Mr. Warren had very little professional employ- 
ment ; and in 1821 he removed to Palmyra, Penobscot County, 
Maine, then in the midst of a primeval forest, and took charge 
of what remained of his father's three townships of wild land, — 
Palmyra, Xewport, and Corinna. Here he passed many years 
of seclusion and hardship, devoting himself assiduously to the 
interests of the settlers, and finding much and useful employ- 
ment as a lawyer and magistrate. In 1828 he prepared a bio- 
graphical notice of his father, which appeared in the appendix 
to Thacher's Medical Biography ; and about the same time a 
memoir of Gen. Joseph Warren, for the American edition of 
Rees's Cyclopaedia. In 1833 he removed from Palmyra to 
Bangor, to be nearer the centre of the speculation in timber- 
lands, then at its height. Here he was chosen president of a 
bank. His first adventures in timber-land were successful. 
This led him farther on, and the close was financial ruin and 
bankruptcy. Mr. Warren, being a zealous whig in a democratic 
state, failed of political honors, except in a single year, when a 
temporary triumph of his party sent him to the state senate for 
a single term. Having obtained some property by a legacy in 
1843, he removed the next year to Boston, and opened an office 
in Court Street, though making frequent visits to Bangor and 
Palmyra. In 1852 he removed to Xew York, and took an 
office in Pine Street. But he continued to pass much of the 
summer in Maine, where he had old claims to look after. He 
became possessed of a house and land in Newport, in that state, 
and gave much attention to improving the place. By this time 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 23 

he had become engaged in various speculations. He was inter- 
ested in a coal mine, in large land claims in Ohio and Western 
Virginia, and was an owner of lots in Brooklyn and Harlem, 
N.Y. These interests, and the litigation to which they led, 
gave him full employment for many years. In June, 1869, he 
came to Boston, to attend the Musical Jubilee. He had previ- 
ously had an attack of illness, but was able to enjoy his visit ; 
but upon his return to New York he was seized with severe 
catarrhal symptoms, which soon affected the lungs, and after a 
week's illness proved fatal on G July. He was never mar- 
ried. 

1813. — WiNSLOW Warren was born in Plymouth, 14 
January, 1795. He was the son of Henry and Mary (Win- 
slow) Warren, and was descended, on both sides, from pas- 
sengers in the " Mayflower." 

He married, January, 1835, Margaret, daughter of Zaccheus 
Bartlett (H.C. 1789) and Hannah (Jackson) Bartlett. His 
widow survives him, as do their three children, Mary Ann, 
Winslow (H.C. 1858), and Caroline B. 

He was prepared for college at Sandwich Academy under the 
instruction of Elisha Clapp (H.C. 1797), a noted teacher in 
his day, and entered as freshman in 1813. He maintained a 
respectable rank in his class, and was graduated with honors. 
He studied medicine with the celebrated Dr. Chapman, of 
Philadelphia, and after a short residence in New York returned 
to Plymouth, where he remained in the practice of his profes- 
sion until his death, 10 June, 1870. 

Of his ancestors, there were graduates of Harvard College, 
James Warren, 1745; Isaac Winslow, 1727; and Pelham 
Winslow, 1753. Two of his father's brothers were also gradu- 
ates, — James, 1776, and George, 1782. 

Dr. Warren was a man of large culture, of refined character 
and manners, and of eminence in his profession. He never filled 
or sought any public station. He was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society, and at the time of his death vice- 
president of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. 



21 yiCBOLOGY or aLZ^L^^ [1869-72. 

1813. — JoH> TTest V - rn in the town f B s: n. 13 
November, 1794. Hr " - : r -r: :i«i child and the oides: ^:n 
of John and Ai ::^:.„ l::^: ^^ rst. 

Of his early life but little information has been obtained. Ic 
i= kr : VTQ, however, that he was sent to the Boston Latin Sel: I . 
— Zi^en tinder the charge of Master Hunt, — when he ^^s 
eight vears old, and kept there until 1807, when ^ his teainer; 
thought him fitted for college." Hiat parents, however, sent him 
: ivate school for two years longer; and in the year 1809 

^ admitted to the freshman class in Harvard College, 
unl ij. 1 r course received his baccalaureate dearer. 1^13. 

The writer of this sketch has not learned anv : :_ : : e 
habits and incidents of his colle^^ life." or o: _v yzizti, 
honors, or dass appointmenis. ' T!:^ :_:::_. exrract from 
a letter to a clerical friend is his own account of his posl- 
graduation life, and " the change of his religious views : ^ — 

** At the dose of my collie life, the time arrived to decide on 
ni- : : t : jurse of life ; and my father called upon me to make 
- 1 r : ::r f the three professions, promising to give me the 
^6i: :i^7j.:.;_^5; of education in either, and to add a suitable and 
ample library; and, in case of my choosing the ministrv, to 
add die gift of a parsonage."' . . . '^ Unitarianism was the 
form of Christianity under whidi the families of both my parents 
were educated, — my Other's imder the elder Emerson, in Bos- 
ton, and my mother's in the old par'sl: in Tnunton, which had 
gradually lapsed into this heresy, siniT : /t _' jod old days when 
her grandfather was the Orth«:»dox :: : . Tt: of that congrega- 
tion, the Kev. Josiah Crocker. A_ : -, iter the most 
strait sect of that relu: :n. I .a^ trained a Unitarian." 
. . . ''Affcer due deliberari ; z . — .aving first diought of the 
ministzy, — I gave my nex: _ r :o the law. Arrangements 
were immediately made with :kr H ::. T \n;:? Biivkri. in 
Taunton. After completing n: tl_:. :::_ Imitted to 

the bar, Mr. Baylies, havin^ r-n rz ir^ n^r . r. .: Congress 
for the district, prrisei :: me a :.::ner;n ::• on £%vorable 
rernis. But just as thii _ ; ::_ lareer was about conmienc- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 25 

ing, a new turn was given to my life. God had other designs 
for me." 

On 2 May, 1816, he was married to Mary Ingraham, daugh- 
ter of Jeremiah and Mary (D'Wolf) Ingraham, of Bristol, 
R.I. ; and this led eventually to his removal from Taunton to 
Bristol, where, for a short time, he continued the study and 
practice of the law. In the year 1817, he was appointed 
cashier of the Freeman's Bank in that town, " which office," 
says a local paper, " he held for several years, resigning to enter 
the work of the ministry." In the letter already quoted, he 
writes, "It was in Bristol that I was first brought under the 
sound of truly scriptural preaching. It was there that the Epis- 
copal Church, under the saintly Griswold, brought religion to 
my view, arrayed in all her purity and beauty ; . . . and I 
there gave my heart to Him, who gave Himself for me. . . . 
Then old things passed away, and all things became new." 

Following up his convictions, he applied for admission as a 
candidate for holy orders in the Episcopal Church ; and, after 
pursuing the regular and canonical course of theological studies, 
he was admitted to the Order of Deacons, in St. Michael's 
Church, Bristol, R.L, on 11 May, 1823, by the Right Reverend 
Alexander V. Griswold, D.D., then Bishop of the Eastern 
Diocese. Having exercised the office of a deacon for more than 
a year satisfactorily to his diocesan, and having received a call 
to the rectorship of St. John's Church, Yonkers, N.Y., he was 
ordained to the priesthood, 1825, probably by Bishop Hobart, of 
that diocese. In 1827 he was called to the old parish of St. 
Thomas's Church, Taunton, Mass., which for many years had 
been without a rector, church edifice, or congregation. Mr. 
West accepted the call, and in the course of a few years suc- 
ceeded in buildinn^ a handsome church, and fi^atherinof together 
a large congregation. In the year 1832 he went to Zion Church, 
Newport, R.I., and remained there ten years, and then took 
charge of St. John's Church, Bangor, Me. In 1846 he re- 
moved his family to Bristol, R.I., and "then began his mission- 
ary work, travelling over distant parts of the country, from 
Maine to Kentucky and Minnesota, establishing new parishes 

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26 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

wherever the bishops of the several dioceses thought best to 
send him ; " and there is ample testimony to the success which 
attended the earnest devotion and indefatigable fidelity with 
which he began, continued, and ended his labors in this most 
arduous and self-denying work. ^'In this great work of the 
church of Christ," says one, " Mr. West exhibited a degree of 
devotion and perseverance which has rarely been surpassed by 
our most faithful missionaries." And another says, ^' For many 
years he was singularly successful in winning souls to Jesus, 
and in gathering together bands of worshippers in far-off rough 
communities, where there seemed little material for missionary 
effort." 

In a letter to the writer of this memoir, the Right Reverend 
the Bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts, one of the earliest 
and most intimate of his friends, writes as follows : *' Mr. West 
was pre-eminently distinguished by zeal for the extension of 
the gospel, and activity in the support of institutions for this 
great object. In the work of founding new parishes, he was 
remarkably successful ; being possessed of more than ordinary 
executive ability, and having the power of infusing into others 
the same interest by which he himself was animated." His last 
public ministrations were at Edgartown, Mass., "whence," says 
a Bristol paper, " his health failing a few years since, he came 
here, and lived in retirement." 

He afterwards removed to Providence, where two married 
daughters resided ; and there, after a lingering and painful ill- 
ness, "which he bore with rare fortitude and resignation, he fell 
asleep in Jesus," on Monday, 5 June, 1871, "in the communion 
of the Catholic Church, in the confidence of a certain faith, 
in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy hope, and in 
perfect charity with the world." 

The following is an extract from the annual address of the 
Eight Reverend Bishop Eastburn, to the convention of the 
diocese of Massachusetts, 1871 : — 

"I have to record also the departure from this life, soon after 
our last convention, of the Rev. John West, a clergyman well 
known not only in this diocese, but in our church at large. Mr. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 27 

West, as everybody who knew him will say, was a man of 
strong abilities, and a clear preacher of the great truths of the 
Gospel. I look back with tender recollection to the intercourse 
I enjoyed with him in years long passed away, first of all when 
he had the charge of a parish in the neighborhood of New York, 
and afterwards during my summer visits to Newport, R.I., 
where he was once the rector of Zion Church. His last 
services were in this diocese, but for a few years before his 
death he ceased from exercising the duties of the ministry. 
This is fully explained by the fact, as I learned from his nearest 
relatives after his departure, that he had for a long time been 
suffering from a diseased condition of the brain. Let us bear 
in grateful remembrance Mr. West's former and active labors 
towards the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom ; and let 
us hope and trust that he has now exchanged the sorrows of 
this suffering world for the eternal *joy of his Lord.'" 

Mr. West had nine children, whose names are as follows : 
James Howe, Abigail, William, Eliza Wells, Mary, Charlotte, 
Mary, Harriet Van Cortland, Mary Louisa. 

1813. — William Willis died in Portland, Me., 17 Feb- 
ruary, 1870, aged 75 years. He was the second child of Benja- 
min and Mary (McKinstry) Willis, and was born in Haverhill, 
Mass., 31 August, 1794. His paternal ancestors were among 
the early English settlers of Massachusetts. His maternal ances- 
tors were Scotch-Irish. John McKinstry (Edinburgh University, 
1712), his great-grandfather, a clergyman, the first of the name 
who came to this country, arrived 4 August, 1718, and settled 
near Worcester, Mass. His grandfather, son of this Rev. John, 
became a physician in Taunton, Mass., and was appointed 
surgeon-general of hospitals in Boston by Gen. Gage. Dr. 
McKinstry died 21 March, 1776, aged 43 years, on board the 
" Button " hospital ship in Boston harbor, whither he had gone 
with his household on the evacuation of the town by the 
British. 

Mr. Willis's family moved to Portland, Me., in 1803. He 
was fitted for college at Exeter Academy 1808, entered Harvard 
as a sophomore 1810, and was graduated with the class of 1813, 



28 NECROLOGY OF ALmiNI [1869-72. 

having at Commencement a conference on " Justice, Temperance, 
Prudence, and Fortitude." 

On the close of the war with England, his family removed to 
Boston ; and he was placed in the office of Judge Peter O . 
Thacher. In the autumn of the same year (1815), he went to 
Europe with the opportunity for travel, and of considering the 
prospects of a commercial life under the auspices of his father's 
friend, the noted United-States consul Jarvis at Lisbon. Peturn- 
ing home in time to be admitted at Suffolk bar in 1817, he at 
once opened an office in Boston. January, 1818, he visited the 
West Indies, remaining there until spring. In both of these 
trips, by his letters, he showed that fondness for observation, sug- 
gestive aptness, with the capacity of a ready writer, — qualities 
which afterwards helped, to distinguish him. TThen the Hon. 
Prentiss Mellen, of Portland, was chosen United- States senator 
from Maine, he sent for ]Mr. Willis, — who had been his law 
student, — and took him into partnership ; but the same year 
(1819), Mr. Mellen having been made chief justice of the 
Supreme Court of the new state of Maine, this relation termi- 
nated ; and he continued in business as a lawyer alone, until he 
was joined by Hon. William Pitt Fessenden in 1835, a partner- 
ship which lasted nineteen years. In 1854, Henry Willis (B.C.) 
was associated as partner : after the death of this son, his father 
'again conducted the office singly to the end. The eminent 
forensic abilities of Mr. Fessenden early established a division of 
duty in the course of their law business, the one attending to 
court practice, the other to conveyancing and the preparation of 
cases. But Mr. WiUis's taste for literature, his love for anti- 
quarian research, withal his facility of expression, early lured 
him from full devotion to the narrower path of law ; so that for 
three of these first years at Portland he engaged himself regu- 
larly to write leading articles for the Gazette of that place, — an 
early instance of separation of the duties of publisher and editor. 
At the close of this engagement, the Maine Historical Society 
was incorporated (1822), an object to which he became a pillar 
of usefulness, and which never ceased to feel his best efforts. 
1 September, 1823, he married Julia, daughter of Ezekiel 



1869-72.] ■ OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 29 

Whitman (B.U. 1794), chief justice of the Court of Common 
Pleas, and subsequently chief justice of the Supreme Judicial 
Court of Maine, also one of the first representatives of the state 
in Congress. Both parents survived their eight children : the 
widow died 21 April, 1872, leaving three grandchildren. 

For fourteen years Mr. Willis was recording secretary of 
the Maine Historical Society, for more than ten years its presi- 
dent, and from the beginning practically, if not formally, 
chairman of its publishing committee. The first volume of Col- 
lections was issued 1831 : this contained a portion of the History 
of Portland, written by him. Next year a second volume of 
this history was published independently ; and thirty-three years 
afterwards he issued a new and much enlarged edition, pp. 428, 
" which will be his monument more enduring than brass." The 
second and third volumes of the Historical Collection came out 
in 1847 and 1853 respectively : these were edited by Mr. Willis, 
and contain, with other articles of his, a biography of William 
Ladd, the noted peace advocate. In 1855, at meeting of the 
society in August, he gave a public address, discovering a rare 
range of information upon the history of Maine, which did much 
to awaken an interest towards the society's transactions. The 
year following he was chosen president ; his inaugural address, 
in March, 1847, was dedicated to the memory of his predeces- 
sors in that office. In 1858, he gave a remarkable address 
upon Scotch-Irish immigration to Maine, with some account of 
Presbyterianism. His papers are to be found in every volume : 
among them are those upon the language of the Eastern Indians 
and the Hudson Bay's ; the ancient Sheepscott, Waymouth's 
voyages, ancient coins found in the State, obituary notices ; and, 
finally, at the time of his death, he was editing the first volume 
of a new series of the Historical Collection, containing Dr. 
Kohl's history of the discovery of Maine, and kindred docu- 
ments. 

The temperament of Mr. Willis was literary. Free and felic- 
itous with his pen, combining industry with admirable system in 
work, he was enabled to collect and to present in attractive forms 
a variety of antiquarian lore, which arc now memorials to his 



30 NECROLOGY OF ALUMN'I [1869-72. 

painstaking research and wide knowledge. His former pastor 
said of him. " that family trees stood in his ready memory, from 
which to take, as opportunity was offered, that which should 
instruct his fellow-men." In 1849 he edited a new edition of 
Parson Smith's and Dr. Deane's journals, — first .and second 
ministers of First Parish, Portland, 1720 to 1812, — with a 
dissertation, copious notes, and other apparatus, pp. 483 ; next, 
the new edition of his history of Portland, above named: in 
1863, the history of "The Law, the Courts and Lawyers of 
Maine," pp. 712 : and in 1866 he added an enlarged ledition of 
the genealogy of the McKinstry family, with an essay oIq Scotch- 
Irish immigration to America. Since 1822, when his formal 
editorship ceased, the number of his contributions to the daily 
press is astonishing, in view of the amount of permanent lite- 
rary work meanwhile performed by him. These embrace, with 
some poetry, articles upon an infinite variety of entertaining, 
instructive, and live topics of the day. In the obituary depart- 
ment he was especially noted. Reviewing this half century of 
newspaper field, his efforts seem like "arrows shot in the air," 
performing a valued purpose at the time, but never gathered for 
double duty. As one turns over the files, perusing these ac- 
complishments of a scholarly, genial, Cjuickened mind, the 
reflection starts, that the writer anticipated in them a valuable 
department, which has since distinguished the best journalism. 
The subject of this notice was for many years prominent in 
politics, and ever took an active part in beneficent civic con- 
cerns, rarely shrinking from that participation in local affairs 
which his experience and position entitled him to take. Asso- 
ciated uniformly m his community with bodies for scientific, 
educational, and benevolent objects, he was the originator of the 
Portland Institute and Public Library, to which he gave by 
will his library, manuscript, scrap-books, and autograph docu- 
ments : he held in 1853 the office of a railroad president ; was 
for many years a bank director, a state senator in 1855, mayor 
of Portland in 1>57, and elector of President of the United 
States in 1860. Bowdoin College gave him the degree of 
LL.D. in 1867. He was an honorary member and vice-presi- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 31 

dent for several years of the New-England Historic-Genea- 
logical Society, and was elected an honorary member of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society, 11 May, 1854, the same 
day with Bapon Macaulay and Henry Hallam. In addition to 
these honors, he received diplomas from the Georgia Historical 
Society, August, 1840, Pennsylvania Historical Society, May, 
1854, Wisconsin Historical Society, November, 1855, New 
Hampshire Historical Society, September, 1856, Florida His- 
torical Society, August, 1857, Vermont Historical Society, Oc- 
tober, 1857, Albany Institute, April, 1856, Buffalo Historical 
Society, June, 1862, American Antiquarian Society, April, 
1864, Long Island Historical Society, 1868. On the Mon- 
day previous to Mr. Willis's death, he laid aside the histori- 
cal papers which he was editing to complete a biographical 
sketch of the youngest of a venerable family triad who 
had just died, aged ninety-six years : the whole article dis- 
plays unusual warmth, abounding in happy aspirations. It 
appeared next day in the newspaper, but with an announce- 
ment in these words : " My declining health and strength ad- 
monish me that I must write no more.'^ On Tuesday, how- 
ever, he resumed labor upon his historical article ; but at 4 p.m., 
pen in hand, became unconscious, and lay in a swoon till three 
o'clock Wednesday morning. A couch had been brought to 
his library : upon it he reclined without distress up to nine 
o'clock Thursday morning, when he gently parted with this 
life. 

1814. — JosiAH Lamson was born in Topsfield, Mass., 15 
August, 1789; was fitted for college at Dummer Academy; 
studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Kittredge, of Andover, and 
began practice in Essex in 1818, where he remained to the 
time of his death. He married in 1824 Rebecca E. Saraent, 
who died in 1837, leaving two daughters and one son. In 1839 
he married Betsey Dodge, by whom he had no children. He 
retired from practice in 1861, and devoted himself, as far as im- 
paired sight would allow, to horticulture, of which he was very 
fond. He died 16 April, 1870, leaving a son and one daughter. 
His successor. Dr. Lovering, says of him, " He left behind him 



32 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

many friends, none of whom will lament his loss more than 
myself." 

1814. — Caleb Swan was born in Charlestown, Mass., 23 
September, 1793 : received the degree of M.D. at Cambridge in 
1831 ; and settled in Easton, in the county of Norfolk, where he 
continued in practice to the time of his death, which occurred 
19 March, 1870. He left a son, who succeeded him in his 
profession, and a daughter, married to Senator Morrill, of Ver- 
mont. 

1815. — Appleton Howe, son of the Eev. Nathaniel Howe 
(H.C. 1786), was born in Hopkinton, 26 November, 1792. 
His father was for many years a minister in that town, having 
been settled over the Congregational Church in 1791, and 
remaining there until 1830, seven years before his death. He 
was a man of decidedly original and uncompromising character ; 
and many interesting anecdotes of him are still current. While 
exchanging with a brother minister one stormy Sunday, the 
congregation was quite thin, and he startled those who attended 
by praying "O Lord, have mercy on afternoon hearers and fair- 
weather Christians." Appleton Howe, his son, so conducted him- 
self in college as to be entitled to distinction at exhibitions and at 
Commencement. He then entered the medical school, and before 
his graduation read an essay on "Blood-letting." His instruc- 
tors were the noted Drs. John C. Warren and John Ware. He 
began practice in South Weymouth, immediately on his gradu- 
ation, with all the ardor of a vigorous mind and an enthusi- 
astic love of his profession. He married Harriet, daughter of 
Eliphalet Lord, of Weymouth, on 12 December, 1821. His 
influence was soon felt in the town, and in all matters of public 
interest and welfare he was deeply and actively interested. His 
public spirit was duly appreciated. In 1839 he was chosen 
major-general of the first division of Massachusetts militia, and 
again, under the new law, in 1841. He was elected captain of 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery in 1840. In 1841 and 
1842 he was elected by the whig party to the state senate. On 
the organization of the antislavery movement, he entered into it 
with his usual zeal ; and he was also a strong and uncompromis- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 33 

ing total abstinence man. For over twenty years he was an active 
member of the school committee. Mrs. Howe died, without 
issue, 16 November, 1848, at the age of 57 ; and in the same 
year he was the unsuccessful candidate of the liberal party for 
representative in congress. In 1849 he resigned his commis- 
sion as major-general. He married again, 12 August, 1851, 
Eliza, daughter of Joseph Lord, of South Weymouth, by whom 
he had two children : one, a son, who died in infancy ; the other, 
a daughter, who, with her mother, is still living. He died, 
after a long illness, 10 October, 1870; and his funeral took 
place two days later. 

He was faithful to his professional duties, a regular student 
of the Bible, a generous contributor to the support of Christian 
institutions, and a faithful observer of the Sabbath, although he 
never became a member of any church. 

1816. — John Emerson, son of Thomas Emerson, a native 
of Ireland, was born at Thomaston, Me., 30 July, 1792. 
He studied with Elias Phinney (H.C. 1801), a lawyer in 
Thomaston, and entered college in 1812. After graduating, he 
taught for a while in a Lancastrian school, in Bucksport, Me., 
and afterwards studied law, and was admitted to the bar at 
Topsham, September, 1820. He began practice in Freedom, 
w^here he continued till 1826, when he removed to Montville, 
where, with the exception of the period from 1830 to 1835, 
when he had an office at Searsport, he continued till September, 
1851. Some years before his death he removed to Oldtown, 
Me., where he died, 21 March, 1872, in his eighty-third year. 
He married, 5 July, 1829, Sarah Wales, daughter of William 
Wales, by whom he had five children, as follows : Catharine, 
Almatia Sarah, Elizabeth Ilazeltine, Abby Jane, Helen Au- 
gusta. At the time of his death, he was the oldest member of 
the bar in his county. 

1816. — Henry Artemas Ward was born in Weston, Mass. , 
9 August, 1797. He was son of the Hon. Artemas Ward and 
Catherine Maria Dexter. He came of a long and distinguished 
ancestry. His father (H.C. 1783) was a member of the ex- 
ecutive council, twice a representative in Congress, chief justice 



34 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

of tlie Court of Common Pleas, and overseer of the college for 
thirty-four years ; and in 1842 he received the degree of Doc- 
tor of Laws from the college. His grandfather (H.C. 1748) 
vras the tamous Major-General Artenias Ward, of revolutionary 
fame. Mr. Ward was the fourth of six children, four sons and 
two daughters. One of his brothers, Charles Trowbridge Ward, 
is stilMiving, and both sisters, — one, Catherine Maria, widow of 
Samuel B. Barrell : and the other, Frances Fidelia, the widow 
of the Eev. Alvan Lamson, D.D., of Dedham. In 1800 his 
father removed to Charlestown. He was fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy, Exeter. After leaving college, he went into 
business, becoming one of a firm which was largely interested 
in the West India trade. Pie remained there but a few years, 
however, as he had no liking for trade, and undertook the 
study of medicine. He entered the office of Dr. Randall, and 
afterwards studied two or three years in Paris. He was admitted 
a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1832, sixteen 
years after his graduation. He was active in his profession, 
until about five years before his death, and was very well 
known in the city. His practice would have been much more 
extensive, but for the fact that he was not dependent upon it 
as a means of support. During the latter part of his life, he 
devoted much time to the study of modern languages, espe- 
cially German and French, of which he was very fond. He 
was of a C[uiet, retiring disposition, but had a small circle of 
friends, whose acquaintanceship he highly prized. He died 
at the residence of his brother, Charles Trowbridge Ward, 
228, Tremont Street, Boston, where he had lived for the last 
thirtv years of his life, on 16 June, 1869, of Bright's disease of 
the kidneys, aggravated by heart disease. 

1817. — RiCHAED Greex Parker was the youngest of seven 
sons of the Right Rev. Samuel Parker and Anne Cutler, his 
wife. The father was a graduate of Harvard College, in the 
class of 1764, and received the diploma of S.T.D. from the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1789. Having taken priest's orders 
from Dr. Tench, bishop of London, in the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, he was elected rector of Trinitv Church, in Boston, 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 35 

there being no authority in America competent to confer 
that office. Dr. Parker was elected bishop of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church of Massachusetts in 1804, and died 6 De- 
cember in that year. The mother of llichard was the daugh- 
ter of Mr. John Cutler, a respectable merchant in Boston. 
Eichard was born 25 December (Christmas), 171)9. He 
was fitted for college in the public Latin School in Boston, 
and entered a freshman in the summer of 1813, and was grad- 
uated in the class of 1817. He then began a course of theo- 
logical study, which he afterwards relinquished. Soon after he 
was elected principal of the Franklin Grammar School, in Bos- 
ton. This was in 1830, and he remained there until 1836, 
when he w^as transferred to the Hancock Grammar School ; 
whence he was transferred in that year to the Johnson Gram- 
mar School, — the latter school being exclusively adapted to 
female pupils, — where he remained until 1853, when he re- 
signed in August of that year. He kept afterwards a private 
school for some years. 

He was married to Miss Mary Ann Moore Davis, a daughter 
of Mr. Amasa Davis, and granddaughter of General Amasa 
Davis, of Boston. His wife died in 1848, at Dedham, Mass. 
Subsequently he married Mrs. Catherine Pay son, a widow of 
Mr. Payson, a schoolmaster. 

The children by the former wife were five, — two sons and three 
daughters, — of whom the daughters are the survivors. Rich- 
ard died 26 September, 1869, and was buried in the family 
tomb under Trinity Church, Boston, aged 70. He wrote and 
published a number of elementary books, all of which were 
introduced in the grammar schools in Boston and in the country. ' 
The following works have gone through several editions : "Par- 
ker's Natural Philosophy," "Aids to English Composition," 
"Outlines of History," "Geographical (Questions," and others. 
The "Aids to English Composition" was pirated and reprinted 
in England under an assumed name. 

1817. — Samuel Joseph May, youngest son of Joseph and 
Dorothy (Sewall) May, was born in Boston, 12 September, 
1797. 



36 NECROLOGY OF ALOINI [1869-72. 

His father ''born 1760, died 1841' was a merchant of Bos- 
ton, and one of the members of King's Chapel, who, in 17^7, 
ordained the Eev. James Freeman to be their minister. He 
was the life-long and intimate friend of Dr. Freeman, as also, 
afterwards, of his successor, Eev. F. VT. P. Greenwood. 

His mother was daughter of Deacon Samuel Sewall, of Bos- 
ton, whose father, Joseph Sewall, D.D. (H.C. 1707), was long 
pastor of the Old South Church : his father being Chief Justice 
Samuel Sewall, of Massachusetts, 1718-28, whose honorable 
record is that, having participated in the trials and condemna- 
tions for witchcraft at Salem (1692-93;, he afterwards made 
jDublic confession of the wrong, asking forgiveness of God and 
man, on account of the part he had borne in them. 

Samuel Joseph May grew up under plain and wholesome 
home instruction, and under the inliuence of Dr. Freeman's 
ministry, which he ever regarded as a chief good fortune of his 
life. His first school-teacher, of whom we are informed, was 
Mr. Cummings, afterwards of the bookselling firm of Cum- 
mings & Hilliard ; his next, for a short time, Mr. Launcelot 
Lyon. At eleven years old he was put to Mr. Daniel Adams, 
and shortly afterwards to the school of Eev. Dr. Eichmond, at 
Stoughton. At the age of thirteen he became a pupil of !Mr. 
Elisha Clap, an exact and able teacher, whose school was in 
the basement of the First Chmxh, Chauncy Place, and remained 
with him until he entered college, at the age of sixteen, in 1813. 
He held a very respectable rank in his class. In his first year 
he took a first Bowdoin prize, for an essay on "The Causes of 
the Varieties in Xational Character.'' Xo freshman had ever 
before, we believe, gained a Bowdoin prize. At Commence- 
ment he had part, with Samuel A. Eliot, of Boston, in a collo- 
Cjuial discussion of "The Sabbath. Jewish and Christian." 

Immediately after graduating. 1^17, he commenced his studies 
for the Christian ministry with Eev. Henry Colman, whom he 
also assisted in his classical school at Hingham. In 1818 he 
entered the theological school at Cambridge, pursuing these 
studies with great interest. He first preached in December, 
l'>2u, in the pulpit of his friend,, the late TT. B. O. Peabody, 



1869-72 ] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 37 

of Springfield. During a considerable part of 1821 he was the 
assistant of Eev. Wm. E. Channing in pulpit and pastoral 
work. Ordained in Boston at the First Church, 13 March, 
1822, he went at once to Brooklyn, Connecticut, and entered 
upon a ministry which continued fourteen years. He brought 
the small and harassed society there into a state of efficiency 
and harmony, and identified himself and them with many ob- 
jects of public improvement and human benefit. He assisted in 
forming the Windham County Peace Society, in or about 1826. 
In that year, also, he brought the subject of entire abstinence 
from intoxicating drinks before the town, and an active society 
was formed. He was a member of the school committee during 
the whole time, and, the condition of the schools being low, 
joined with others in calling a state convention in October, 
1827, "the first convention," says Hon. Henry Barnard, editor 
of the "American Journal of Education," "ever held in the 
country to consider the condition of the common schools, and 
propose the improvement of them." For many years the con- 
dition of the slaves in the United States had much affected him, 
and in October, 1830, he became fully committed to the move- 
ment for the abolition of slavery, giving his hand and help to 
Mr. Garrison, and remaining his close and firm friend to the 
end of his life. He took up earnestly the cause of Miss Cran- 
dall, teacher of a school for colored girls in the adjoining town 
of Canterbury, whose people had undertaken to suppress the 
school by violence, if necessary. 

In December, 1833, he was a member of the convention, at 
Philadelphia, which formed the American Antislavery Society. 
In 1834 he obtained leave of absence from his society at Brook- 
lyn, that he might give himself wholly for a time to the service 
of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, as their general 
agent; which he did, encountering in several places violent op- 
position. "I was mobbed," he says, "five times." 

In 1836 he left Brooklyn, and in October was installed pas- 
tor of the Congregational Church and Society in South Scitu- 
ate, Massachusetts, where he [)assed, he says, "yix of the 
happiest years of my life." He became well known in Plym- 



38 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

outh County for active labors in behalf of common- school 
education, of temperance, and of the abolition of slavery ; and 
he took an active part in securing the re-election of ex -Presi- 
dent John Quincy Adams to Congress, after his brave defence 
there of the right of petition. At the call of the State Board 
of Education, he left South Scituate in 1842 and became 
principal of the first state normal school, then established at 
Lexington. He held this place two years, and until the re- 
establishment of the health of its former principal. For a short 
time" he served the First Lexington Church as their minister, and 
was influential in settling a long-standing controversy concerning 
the ministerial fund. 

In April, 1845, he removed to Syracuse, New York, answer- 
ing a unanimous invitation to become minister of the Unitarian 
society, now known as the Church of the Messiah. Thence- 
forward, until April, 1868, when he had attained the age of 70, 
he continued their pastor, in abundant ministerial labors, and 
with the same active interest in education, in temperance, and in 
the abolition of slavery, which he had manifested elsewhere. 
And not these alone ; but the remnant of the Indian tribes in 
that vicinity, the homeless boys of the canals, the charitable 
institutions of the city, and the fugitive slaves from the Southern 
states, who came in considerable numbers through Syracuse, 
found in him a friend and helper. In October, 1851, he took a 
leading part in the successful rescue from the hands of the 
United States officers of Jerry McHenry, who had been ar- 
rested and imprisoned as a fugitive from slavery. And when, 
slavery being abolished, three millions of slaves by the long- 
delayed justice of the nation became free men, he was among 
the first to organize means and agencies of relieving their im- 
mediate necessities and of educating their children. Once 
during the late war he visited Virginia, to inspect the freed- 
men's schools there ; and twice, previously to the war, he visited 
the settlements of fugitive slaves in Canada West. A writer in 
the Syracuse "Daily Standard," soon after his death, said: "It 
was a bold undertaking for a minister in this state, a quarter of 
a century ago, thus unreservedly to identify himself with these 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 39 

obnoxious reforms : but in his church no root of bitterness was 
planted by the efforts of its pastor; on the contrary, he nur- 
tured and tended the seed of his own sov/ing within it, and it 
sprang up and bore abundant fruit. He educated his church up 
to his own standards." 

From an early period in his ministry he opposed the taking of 
human life as a penalty for crime. The subject of equal civil 
rights for women early engaged his attention, and the woman 
sufFrao^e movement counts him as amono- its first advocates. 
Among his most cherished friends in Central New York was the 
Hon. Gerrit Smith, with whom he co-operated in religious and 
moral reforms, and aided in his extensive plans of benevolence. 

The greater part of 1859 he spent in a tour in Europe. For 
five years (1865—70) he was president of the Board of Educa- 
tion of Syracuse, and one of the public school-houses was called 
by his name. He exerted himself to have corporal punishment 
entirely disused in public schools, and with success in Syracuse. 
During some of the latter years of his life he was president of 
the Association of Alumni of the Divinity School of Cambridge. 
He was also presiding oflScer of the conference of liberal Chris- 
tian churches in Central New York. 

He was married, 1 June, 1825, to Lucretia Flagge Coffin, 
daughter of Peter Coffin, Esq., of Boston. Five children 
were born to them, of whom four still survive, viz. : John Ed- 
ward, born 7 October, 1829; Charlotte Coffin, born 24 April, 
1833 (married Alfred Wilkinson, 1854) ; Joseph, born 21 Jan- 
uary, 1836 (H.C. 1857) ; George Emerson, born 25 Septem- 
ber, 1844. Mrs. May died at Syracuse, 8 May, 1865. 

After dissolving his connection with the Church of the INIes- 
siah, 1868, he extended his field of labor, as preacher and re- 
former, through Central and Western New York. He took a 
warm interest in the establishment of Cornell University, and 
gave to that institution, a few montlis before his death, his en- 
tire antislavery library, whicli received a special place there, 
with the name of the May Collection. For several years his 
health had been a good deal impaired, and a i)ainful lameness 
had much increased ; but he was never long confined to the 



40 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

house, nor detained from occupation, until the spring and early 
summer of 1871, when an illness of many weeks quite disabled 
him. He was believed to be recovering, however, and on 1 
July saw several friends, and conversed much and cheerfully, 
his last visitor being his friend Andrew D. White, president of 
Cornell University. Late in the evening he suddenly became 
mor^ ill. and very soon breathed liis last, in love and peace. 
The funeral services, on '3 July, were attended by great num- 
bers, both at the church and at Oakwood cemetery, adcbesses 
being made by Messrs. C. D. B. Mills, TTilliam Lloyd Gar- 
rison, Bishop Loguen. of the African Methodist Church, 
Eev. William P. Tilden. Rev. S. E. Calthrop, President 
TThite, of Cornell, Eev. T. J. Mumford, and Eev. E. TT. 
Mundy. TThe Scriptures also were read, and prayers offered 
by Eev. Messrs. Calthrop and Frederick Frothingham.] At 
the grave. President White said: "Here lies before us all that 
was mortal of the best man, the most truly Christian man. I 
have ever known." The above addresses, Occ together with 
the proceedings of the church and citizens, and an eloquent 
sketch of his life and character, which appeared in the Syracuse 
"Daily Standard," 3 July, 1871, were pubhshed by his friends 
in Syracuse, making a memorial pamplilet of seventy-live pages. 
Other notices of him appeared in "The Independent," "The 
Liberal Chiistian," and "The Evening Post" (Xew York), and 
in "The Christian Register'' (Boston). 

Of his printed pubKcations, the first were "An Exposition of 
the Sentiments and Purposes of the Windham County Peace 
Society," and a sermon on ''The Treatment of Enemies pre- 
scribed by Christianity" (about 182i3). There were also "Let- 
ters to Eev. Joel Hawes, D.D., on his Tribute to the ^Memory 
of the Pilgrims," 1831 : "Discourse on Slavery in the United 
States," 1831; "The Eight of Colored People to Education 
Vindicated : Letters to Andrew T. Judson, Esq., and others, in 
Canterbury,'' 1833 : "Letter to the Editor of 'The Christian 
Examiner,'" 1834: "Fourth Annual Eeport of the Massachu- 
setts Antislavery Society," 1836: "Discourse on the Death of 
Mrs. Cecilia Brooks," 1837 : "Discourse on the Life and Char- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 41 

acter of the Eev. Charles Follen, LL.D.," 1840; "Emanci- 
pation in the British West Indies: an Address," &c., 1845; 
" Jesus the Best Teacher of his Religion : a Discourse before the 
Graduating Class of the Cambridge Theological School," 1847 ; 
" A Discussion on the Doctrine of the Trinity," with Rev. Lu- 
ther Lee, 1854; "An Address before the American Peace 
Society," 1860; " A Brief Account of his Ministry:" a dis- 
course to his own church, 1867. (The preceding all in pam- 
phlet form.) " Some Recollections of our Antislavery Conflict." 
16mo. pp. 408. 1869. His latest publication was a small 
tract, entitled, "Complaint against the Presbyterians and 
some of their Doctrines," 1871. Other publications were, a 
memoir of Cyrus Peirce, published in Mr. Barnard's " Journal 
of Education;" tracts of the American Unitarian Association, 
one of which, "What do Unitarians Believe?" has had a wide 
circulation; several articles in the "Liberty Bell," an antislav- 
ery annual ; tracts in the woman's rights movement ; com- 
munications to Rev. Dr. Sprague's "Annals of the American 
Pulpit ; " to the " Independent " (on corporal punishment, and 
recollections of Arthur Tappan) and to the Syracuse journals 
many sermons, letters from Europe, &c. 

He established and edited at Brooklyn, Conn., in 1823 or 
1824, "The Liberal Christian;" and again, in 1832, "The 
Christian Monitor," both weekly journals, devoted to making 
known and advocating the theological belief and the humane life, 
which he cherished as the essence of true religion. In 1833 he 
established, also at Brooklyn, "The Unionist," as a weekly anti- 
slavery paper, and to defend the rights of the free colored peo- 
ple of the land, being enabled to do this last by the cordial 
encouragement and pecuniary liberality of Arthur Tappan, of 
New York. The one great, constant work of his simple, pure, 
and upright life was to make Christianity a practical, actual, 
living reality. He was by nature, as well as choice, a religious 
teacher. 

1817. — Horatio Newhall was born in Lynn, jNIass., 
28 August, 1798, and was a son of Josiah, whose father's name 
was Jolm ; which John was a grandson of Thomas Newhall, 

G 



42 NZCP.OLOCtY of AlTMyi [1869-72. 

the first white person bom in Lynn, and the d.:e : : whose birth 

was 1630. The mother of Dr. Xewh:."_ r - L v. daughter 
of Col. John Mansfield, of the revoluti;:: 17 r::::;, 

The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at Lvnn 
A A : " , djunder the instraction of Samuel Xewhall, who, 

vr::.: j '^ ::~ Harriet, afterward became so celebrated for their 
m -51 :: v.- 1 :s in India, and parti j;, nnder Solomon S. Whip- 
ple, subse'iuentlj a lawyer in Salem, Mass. He entered Har- 
T?: : C A^r ■ s fifteenth bn-thdaj (28 Angast, 1813), and 
in :« v s- ::r some whose names bare become deservedly 
conspicuous; among them. Gei-ge Bancroft, Caleb Cushing, 
Eer. Dr. Tyng. A - E E - n. He graduated with 

honor, and s: r. At iiseA : the study of medicine. 
faking his A^ : ee ::: 1 M 1 

A number of femilies '.:;''. f:i.'_: :.:t ' :::_/_ E:5:;:: :: :be new 
state 01 Illinois about t :. i - : : 
cian. they, on the recomi-.T. E :: 
vited Dr. Xe^-hrE :; :T:--.:ve :':.::':. i:. In E;?: :zi month after 
leaving B:-:;:. . ':.- Lt :. ; . :/> n t_l little French village of St. 
Louis. ::A. ::: E" : : '::.::-. in^A his camp among the 
se:Ee:s : E;: :: ^ n^ tL 'v :ErS. then in the floral 

c:^ : : Vr : r:/:\" J':/:.^, nv t: : t - tE:A : ::i the phthisicky 
y: :_ - ^ : A : £ :: : ::,'::: him firom St. 

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tions, that he h ' t: Ut ^ EAE E^:: ::tE 

Dr. Xe^: E £ : :-! A:e : A - ille. Bond County, 

and si'On ::nn.I n::n^fE A cx:rnsive ^::-::::E-r. ?.z least, so far as 
terri:::T is :;n:r:n:E He vras veir ^n Ei:-s^;n::ed, and did 
LE :.:most for the prosperity of his new home. 

I y. 1"^27 he removed firom Greenville to the mining region in 
tbr In: n territory. In 1830 he was stationed at Fort Winne- 
bago as an actinsr suroreon of the V 
1 ^ : '2 . : r : T : : t " to Gralena, where . 
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1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 43 

to arrest the progress of the pestilence ; and his services in 
that direction proved of great value. In 1861 he v\^as ap- 
pointed physician of the United States hospital at Galena, and 
continued to perform the duties till 1866, w^hen it was closed. 
He edited the "Miners' Journal," commenced in 1827, — the 
first nev^^spaper published north of the Illinois river ; also, the 
"Galena Advocate," first issued in 1829. 

In 1830 Dr. Newhall married Elizabeth T. T. Bates, a 
daughter of Moses Bates, of Richmond, Va. The union was a 
happy one, and continued till 1848, when she died. They had 
three sons and three daughters, all of whom survived him. 

The religious element was marked in the character of Dr. 
Newhall from an early age. In 1835 he connected himself 
with the First Presbyterian Church of Galena, and, some eight 
years after, was chosen an elder, continuing in the office for the 
remainder of his life. His death took place on 19 September, 
1870. 

1817. — James Warren Sever was born at Kingston, 
Mass., 1 July, 1797, and died at Boston, -16 January, 1871. 
Robert Sever, an ancestor, came from England in 1633, and 
settled in Roxbury, Mass. His great-grandfather, Nicholas 
Sever (H.C. 1701), was tutor at Harvard College from 1716 
to 1728, and fellow from 1725 to 1728. In 1728 he settled in 
Kingston, Mass. He was judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas from 1731 to 1762. His grandfather, William Sever, 
(H.C. 1745), took an active part in political life. He was rep- 
resentative to the General Court, senator, member of the Provin- 
cial Congress and of the Council of Massachusetts. As president 
of the council, and acting governor, he delivered the annual mes- 
sage in 1779. He is described as "by far tlie most of a states- 
man that has appeared in Plymouth County since the union of 
the colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts in 1692." He was 
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 
one of the founders of the Old Colony Chib In 1769. James 
Sever (H.C. 1781), the father of James Warren Sever, was 
born in Kingston in 1761. On leaving college he entered the 
army, and served to the close of the war. In 1798 lie was ap- 



pointed po&t-captain in the Uz::ri S rates Xavy. He com- 
manded the sloop-of-war ** Ht / : ": ihe &igate ^ Congxes*/' 
He left the naTv in 1801. 2£r s riident of the >:^ierr of 
the Cincinnati in 1845. 

James Warren SeTer was fitted for college at the Dmnmer 
Academy at Byfield. In collie he paid mnch attention to mili- 
tazy studies and duties. He was conun^ider of the " Harvard 
Washington Corps" on the occasion of the visit of Prt-iifz: 
Monroe to Cambridge in 1817. He was reconunended by ? _ r « : - 
dent Monroe to apply for an appointm^it to the academy ai Vc^i 
Point. He received the appointmrait, but at the earnest solici- 
tation of his mother he abandoned his purpose, and somi adker 
e":f rf :lr oSace of Levi lincoln, Jr., as student of law- In 
L' :: : t. 1 S20, he relinqnished the stndj of the law, and Altered 
iz.r iiirri^ant service, in iie ezaployment of Messrs. James and 
T. H. Perkins, for whom he sailed for the Columbia Birer. 
P rr 5 'me years afterwards he commanded an IndiamaTi fbr the 
i _r ii^use. till IS'do, when he retired &om the servir. The 
ship "Alert,'' under his command, wai z'zi zrs: h r : 

entered the river of Canton. 

On 7 December, 1836, he marriei Ar.r.e Elizabeth Parsons 
Carter. They had no duldren. 

CI. Sev^- took a warm int^est in military pursuits and 
s: v'ir?. and his connection with the "Independoit Corps of 
L ii:5 "^ was a source of mudi satis&ction to him and of b^i^ft 
to the corps. He was elected adjutant of tir : rc-^s in 1844, 
and together with Lieut. CoL David ^t :5. il Dr 31artin 
Brimmer, and Thomas G. Cary. dev Tt . „. ;:_ :ime to its 
thorough reorganization, and its complete eqmpm^it, drill, and 
disci^ine. He was elet^ed lieut^iant-colonel in 1849, and re- 
si?De«3 rlie o^-e 'n 1^51 He delivered two addr^ses before 
ziz 5 :it : tj - T = ion of the dedication of a monu- 

ment at Mount An : . z , : : ::.- :: . t ii Dry of th<ise members of the 
corps who had ":::":. :ir- „ fs fjr thrir c-?"iitry during 
the War of the r t : z 

Col. S^-rr suiieeded his father as meLirTi :: zzr S ;ir:" 
of the Cincinnati ; and after Ion ^ se: i t = ^ ; " i_ -~:.-::.jj 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 45 

he was chosen president in 1866, and held that office until his 
death. He took great pride and interest in the charitable and 
patriotic objects of this society. He was also elected in 1866 
and 1869 vice-president of the " Greneral Society of the Cincin- 
nati." He was a member of the House of Representatives of 
Massachusetts in 1853 and 1856, and of the City Council of Bos- 
ton in 1850 and 1851. In both these offices his clear understand- 
ing in financial affairs made him a valued and useful member of 
important committees. He took a deep interest in public affiiirs, 
and was a member of various societies, among which were the 
Bunker Hill Association, the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, the 
Historic-Genealogical Society, the Horticultural Society, and 
others. 

1818. — Rev. John Fessenden, son of Thomas and Lucy 
(Lee) Fessenden, was born at Lexington, Mass., 13 March, 
1794. He was descended from Nicholas Fessenden, nephew 
and adopted son of John Fessenden, who came to this country 
about 1636, and settled in Cambridge, Mass. Nicholas Fessen- 
den married Margaret Cheney about 1674. The graves of both 
are in the old churchyard at Cambridge, Mass., where they had 
resided. They had seven sons, two of whom were Nicholas 
(H.C. 1701), and Benjamin (H.C. 1718) . Other graduates of 
the same family were Stephen and William (1737), Benjamin 
(1746), Thomas (1758), Benjamin (1817), Benjamin B. 
(1825). John M. Fessenden (A.M. H.C. 1846) was also 
a kinsman. 

The father of John Fessenden died in his childhood. He 
lived in Lexington with his mother till 1812, and was then sent 
to the academy in Westford, Mass. He graduated at Harvard 
University in 1818, with the first honors of his class, of which 
he was one of the oldest members. He entered the Harvard 
Theological School in 1818, and remained connected with the 
university the greater part of the time, till 1827. He was 
then settled as a clergyman for a year in Eastport, Maine ; in 
1828 returned to Cambridge, and was afterwards settled in 
Deerfield, Mass., from 1830 to 1840. He then removed to 
Dedham, Mass., where he resided till his death, which took 



46 NZCBOLOGT OF ALUZ^INI [1869-72. 

pi:, jr ::: 1^71. He had been an inyalid for many years. EQs 
proiess: v _: .-i't ^^ :\.:: : Ivi.yii: :::, though he 

devoiel :. .:: :: -li. : _r :. :T:.:.i::_. 

He m-'i^id Xancy Baker, of T^. ::!::::., :, October, 1830. 
They had five c :. vo. .. ::: io Z > o f Ma^s. : (1) a son, 
bom 8 August, i-^ol, and died fo i^f . f ri-r; (2) George. 
bom 9 July, 1833; (3) a dan^ :- . :„ ^ July, 1835, and 
ill infancy; (4) Anne, bom 3 July, 1836; (5) Lucy, 
Xovember, 1839. Nearly all the above facts are taken 
: lerier addressed by Mr. Fessenden to the late Dr. Jesse 

Cf :o _:, dated at Dedham. o Ju> . 1:1. The letter itself 
may be : ;:: f in the " class f : .i . " " 

^Ir. re5 5e:i:len t---? - m .n :: fne naniral powers of mind, 
and was p:T5~^ :". :: iv.r Z .oiiii^ :.::d attainments: but had 

suffered n: o- : : o, i ealth, which withdrew him from 

active parti:ip::: o fo Zi: - ::^. He was a great advocate 
of out-door esci-i'O. : :::i_ f oly walks of two or three miles 
before break^t, to : r o^: week of his life. He spent much of 
his time in re:f ol:. _: and study, for which his love never 
grew less. 

If 19. — Bevjaaitn" Baeeeit was bom in Concord, Mass., 
'2 February. ITH'.'. His father. Peter B;.::^::- was a farmer in 
that town. Hi^ ii:::f i. ^lo: P.t^ : :::. y:::^ est daughter of 
Benjamin P:-s:::: H.L. 17:; . :.-„f _oa::i aao.ghter of Benja^ 
min Preso::: H.C. 170;' . Hr v s a boy of studious habits 
an : _ f^ ::inen:. Wen: to the common district school, 

and a icw teim^ i^j the H:_f ^f.: 1 in the centre of the town. 
At the age of sixteen wf:_: : ^ _?n. and lived with his sister, 
Mrs. W^illiam Gibbs. Lit^ f :: : at three year ^, as 

fitted for college, r io i alf :f f;e :a: :: n f J t f E. 
Worcester (Y.C. 1^11 . Z ::-: n l^i:, anf _ afa : f in 
the usual course, with fair scholarship. 

After graduation he kept the High School in Concord a short 
time, and then coin!nen'?ed the study of medicine at Xew Haven 
and Boston. Wfof : n Boston, he was under the tuition of 
Dr. Jam- Jfi n {Bl.G, 1796) and 3>r. J. C. Wancn H.C. 
1797;. He re:eived at Harvard, in 1S23. the degree of M.D. : 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 47 

and removed to Northampton, Mass., in the autumn of that 
year, and formed a copartnership with Dr. David Hunt, under 
the name of Hunt and Barrett. Dr. Hunt afterwards sold to 
Dr. Dennlston ; and Barrett and Dennlston were in company 
from 1834 to some time in 1836. In 1840, Dr. Barrett formed 
a business connection with Dr. Daniel Thompson, who had 
studied medicine in the office of Hunt and Barrett. In 1846, 
Dr. Barrett virtually retired from practice, having sold out his 
interest in the firm to Dr. James Thompson, in 1843. He con- 
tinued to act as consulting physician, however, but never again 
resumed active practice. 

Dr. Barrett held many offices of trust, having been chosen a 
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 
year 1843, and a state senator for 1844 and 1845. He was 
also a member of the Board of County Commissioners for one 
term, having been elected in 1847. He was for several years 
president of the County Temperance Society, as well as of the 
Hampshire District Medical Society. He was treasurer and 
secretary of the Northampton Savings Bank from 1854 to 1864, 
and was then chosen president of the institution, which office he 
held till 1867 ; and has been prominent in the town and county 
during his long life. He was married, 27 August, 1826, to 
Mary, daughter of Seth and Sarah Wright, of Northampton ; 
she died 13 January, 1867. 

He had three children : one son, born 19 July, 1827, died in 
infancy; another, Edward Benjamin, born 1 October, 1836, 
died 24 November, 1865. A daughter, Mary Alright, born 
18 January, 1838 ; married, 2 June, 1866, to Henry R. 
Hinckley, and resides in Northampton. 

Dr. Barrett died quite suddenly, about half-past nine o'clock 
on Monday morning, 14 June, 1869. He had been in the 
enjoyment of his usual health up to the evening before his death, 
having appeared quite cheerful and well for several days. He 
had an attack of colic on Sunday night, but seemed to have 
recovered from it, and was sitting in his chair when he died. 
His death is attributed to heart disease. Dr. Barrett was a man 
of indefatigable energy, of great constitutional endurance and 



48 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

vigor, and a lover of work. As a professional man, he held a 
high and honorable position, and had the confidence of a large 
circle of patrons. Strictly honest and just in all his transactions, 
he won the esteem of the community. In the intercourse with 
the world he was social and genial, and always ready to assist 
pecuniarily or otherwise when opportunity occurred. 

1819. — James Cutler Dunn was born in Boston, 7 Feb- 
ruary, 1801 ; the third son of Samuel and Sarah (Cutler) Dunn. 
His father was a leading man among the Masons, and was 
grand-master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. He was 
fitted for college at Master Staniford's school, and entered Har- 
vard in 1815, at the age of 14 years. After his graduation 
he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston, and was a partner 
of Mr. Francis Skinner ; afterwards was associated with the 
Hon. Isaac Livermore, and still later with Mr. Oliver Brewster. 
After the crisis of 1837 he left mercantile life, and in 1844 was 
elected treasurer of the city of Boston, which office he held 
until 1852. 

He was married, 12 June, 1823, to Sophia, daughter of Hon. 
Elijah and Sarah (Porter) Paine, of Williamstown, Yt., who 
died 15 August, 1861. 

They had five sons and eight daughters. Two sons were 
members of Harvard University : James Cutler, who graduated 
in 1849, and Horace Sargent, who was of the class of 1863, 
but left in 1861 to join the Union army as lieutenant of the 
Twenty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, and died 22 May, 
1862, of disease contracted in the service. 

Mr. Dunn was very fond of travelling, and in 1834 made an 
extended tour through the Southern States on horseback, rough- 
inor it amono^ the Indians. He went as far as Florida twice 
afterwards, and to the Western States several times, and visited 
Europe twice. He died 5 September, 1869, after an illness of 
five months, borne with great patience. 

During his whole life he was deeply interested in works of 
philanthropy and religion ; was an active member of the Ameri- 
can Tract Society, of the Massachusetts Colonization Society, 
and of other charitable societies less widely known. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 49 

He was one of the original founders of St. Paul's church, 
for several years superintendent of the Sunday school, held many 
offices of trust in connection with its benevolent societies, served 
as warden for many years, and was senior warden at the time 
of his decease. 

Mr. Dunn was a man of ability and integrity in his business 
relations, of active benevolence, cheerful temper, warm affec- 
tions, and agreeable manners ; much esteemed and beloved by 
a large circle of friends. 

1819. — Abraham Edwards, son of Abraham and Martha 
Edwards, was born in Boston, 7 September, 1796. He was 
fitted for college by Mr. Charles Folsom, and entered in 1815. 
After graduation, he studied law with Judge Fay, and began 
practice in Brighton, and continued there till 1832, when he 
removed to Cambridge. He married Anne, daughter of Josiah 
and Nancy Moore. He was mayor of Cambridge in 1848. 
He died in Cambridge, 5 February, 1870. He was esteemed 
by his townsmen as an upright and honorable man. He had 
two children, both of whom died before him. 

1819. — Charles Carter Lee was born in Williams 
County, Ya., 2 April, 1797 ; died in Windsor, Ya., 21 March, 
1871, aged 73 years. He was the eldest son of Henry Lee, 
who was styled "Light-horse Harry," by his second marriage, 
and a brother of the late General Robert E, Lee, and a half- 
brother of Henry Lee, who died abroad In the consular service 
early in the administration of Gen. Jackson. Mr. C. C. Lee 
was one of the most noticeable members of Harvard College in 
his day, and he was graduated with all but the first honors. 
He was genial, generous, and manly ; his accomplishments were 
very various ; ever universally esteemed by his classmates, and 
uniformly conversant in Boston circles. For some years subse- 
quent to leaving college, he was engaged in the practice of law in 
the District of Columbia, and at one time a member of the legis- 
lature of Yirglnia. He married a Miss Taylor, and left children. 

1820. — William B^rd Harrison died at Ampthill, Cum- 
berland County, Ya., 22 September, 1870, aged 70. He was 
the son of Benjamin Harrison and Evelyn Byrd, of Wcstover, his 

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oO NECROLOGY OF ALOIVI [1869-72. 

third wife, and was born at Lower Brandon. Va., 31 Alarcli. 1800. 
His father was a third cousin of that Benjamin Harrison who 
was signer oi the Declaration of Independence, and who was 
also father oi Gen. AYilliam Henry Harrison, ninth president 
of the L nited States. His mother was descended — through 
the families of Willing and Shippen. of Phikdelphia — from 
Mai. -Gen. Thomas Harrison, of the parliamentary army. 

Air. Harrison was fitted for college in Jefferson and Albemarle 
counties. A a. After leaving college, he studied no profession, 
and was never in j)tiblic life, but devoted himself with marked 
success to the cultivation of his large estates (containing over 
D'J'j:' :. :irs . v.hich he had received in a wom-out condition. 

A devoted "Union" man, until the secession of his state (to 
which he gave his prime alle2"iance ) ; he was thenceforth an 
ardent supporter of the Southern cause, — giving to it his 
means, and the services of his four sons. His eldest son, Ben- 
jamin H., a captain, was hilled at Malvern Hill: his second, 
[Randolph, lieutenant-colonel, lost a leg at Hatcher's Eun : his 
two remaining and younger sons. C. Shirley, a captain, and 
Geo. Byrd, were also in the Confederate army. 

His fine estate of 3000 acres at Upper Brandon (14 miles 
below ■' Harrison's Landing") was ravaged by the war: and 
the extraordinary exertions consequent upon this, together with 
the loss of his oldest son, hastened his decline in life. 

Mr. Harrison was fond of reading, and a frequent contributor 
to agricultural journals. He was one of the board of visitors 
of WUliam and ]\Iary College, and was spoken of by its presi- 
dent, in his address in l-^TO, as "an elegant scholar, a refined 
gentleman, an intelligent patriot, an ardent and devoted Chris- 
tian." 

His hospitable and charitable character endeared him to his 
Mends and neighbors, whether rich or poor. 

Air. Harrison married for his first wife Mary Randolph Harri- 
son, daughter of Eandolph Hanison, of Cumberland County, 
and had by her the four sons named above, and a fiiih, T\ illiam 
Byrd. who died in boyhood. He married for iiis second wife 
Ellen Wayles Eandolph, daughter of Thomas Jefierson Ean- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 51 

dolph, of Albemarle County, and great-granddaughter of 
Thomas Jefferson, and had by her three children, — Jane 
Nicholas, Evelyn Byrd, and Jefferson Randolph. 

1820. — John Cole Hayden was born in Cambridgeport, 22 
September, 1802. His father was John Hayden, a merchant 
of Cambridgeport. His grandfather, John Hayden, was a far- 
mer in Hopkinton, Mass., and served in the revolutionary war. 
His mother's name was Judith Cole. He was prepared for 
college at Phillips Exeter Academy ; entered Harvard College 
in 1816, graduating in 1820 ; studied medicine with Dr. Chap- 
lin, of Cambridgeport, taking his degree in 1823. He then 
spent two years in Europe, and commenced practice in Boston 
in 1826. In 1827, receiving an invitation signed by several 
prominent citizens of Cambridgeport, to settle there, he moved 
to Cambridgeport. 8 October, 1835, he married Susan Ann 
Buckminster Williams, daughter of Thomas and Susanna Wil- 
liams. Soon after marriage he moved back to Boston, where 
he continued to reside, until a few years before his death, 
when his place of residence was changed to Cambridge. About 
1850 he retired from practice. His death occurred suddenly, 
31 July, 1869, at the age of 67 years, having previously been 
in his usual health. His widow died 28 August, 1871, aged 
65 years. 

There were four children, — all now living, — two sons and 
two daughters : David Hyslop Hsiyden (H.C. 1859), Horace 
John Hayden, Julia Gorham Hayden (married to H. H. Rich- 
ardson, of New York), and Jane Hayden. 

1820. — Ezra Stiles Gannett, son of Caleb and Ruth 
(Stiles) Gannett, was born in Cambridge, 4 May, 1801. His 
father, a graduate of Harvard College in 1763, was connected 
with the college as tutor, from 1773 to 1780; and as steward, 
from 1779 to 1818, the date of his death. The mother of the 
subject of this notice was his second wife. She was the daugh- 
ter of President Stiles, of Yale College, and a woman of strong 
religious feeling, superior understanding, and more than common 
cultivation. He was prepared for college, partly at Andover and 
partly at home, and entered college in 1816, and was graduated 



52 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

with the highest honors of his class. Besides the college perform- 
ances at exhibition and Commencement, suitable to his rank, he 
was the class orator and president of the Hasty-Pudding Club. 
Distinguished in boyhood and youth for strict moral purity, 
seriousness of deportment, and unaffected piety, he inspired a 
peculiar feeling of respect among his contemporaries. After 
three years' study at the Divinity School, he was ordained, 4 
June, 1824, as colleague with Dr. Channing, over the Federal- 
street Church, in Boston, and after the death of his associate 
was the sole pastor. 

From the origin of the American Unitarian Association and 
the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, Dr. Gannett (he re- 
ceived the degree of D.D. from his alma mater in 1843) was 
prominent, not only as one of the founders of the two bodies, 
but as occupying in both, at various times, the positions of 
secretary, director, and president. He was an active member 
and officer of the Massachusetts Temperance Society and the 
State Temperance Alliance. He was a frequent member of 
the school committee : and all the organizations connected with 
the Unitarian denomination had his presence and support. His 
life was one of indefatigable activity and unbroken labor. Be- 
sides the most faithful discharge of his duties as pastor of a 
large city congregation : besides the great amount of time and 
labor he gave to the social and moral reforms of the day, he 
was a frequent contributor to all the Unitarian publications, and 
at different times was editor of the " Scriptural Interpreter " and 
the " Christian Examiner." Many of his sermons and occasional 
discourses were published. He twice visited Europe for his 
health, once in 1835, and once in 1865. He died, 26 August, 
1871, one of the victims of the collision on the Eastern Railroad, 
at Eevere, Mass. In 1835 he married Anna Tilden, daughter 
of Bryant P. and Zebiah Tilden, who died 25 December, 1846. 
His children were Catharine Boott, born 1838, wife of Samuel 
TTells (H.C. 1857) ; William Channing, born 1840 (H.C. 
1860) ; and Henry Tilden, born in 1842, who died in child- 
hood. Dr. Gannett was a man of rare and high gifts, moral 
and intellectual. His written style was pm-e, simple, and forcible. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 53 

In prayer and extemporaneous discourse, in which he had few 
equals, he poured forth his earnest soul in a rushing stream of 
fervid speech. No servant of the Lord ever worked in his Mas- 
ter's vineyard with a more devoted and self-sacrificing spirit. 
Neither ill health, nor infirmity, nor the depressing influence of 
a desponding temperament, could abate his energy or chill his 
zeal. The work he did was enough to task the most robust 
health and the highest spirits. He had all the Christian virtues, 
and especially the peculiarly Christian virtue of humility. In no 
man of our community were the characteristics understood by the 
term apostolic more marked than in him. 

1820. — Rev. Solomon Adams died in Auburndale, Mass., 
20 July, 1870, aged 73 years. He was the son of Rev. 
Solomon and Abigail (Fiske) Adams, and was born in 
Middleton, Mass., 30 March, 1797. His father was born in 
Acton, Mass., 18 January, 1762; was graduated at Harvard 
College in 1788 ; was ordained pastor of the Congregational 
Church in Middleton, 23 October, 1793 ; and died, 4 Septem- 
ber, 1813, aged 51 years. His mother was born in Waltham, 
Mass., in 1776, and died in Amherst, 28 September, 1841. 
The subject of this notice was graduated at Harvard College in 
1820, and then studied divinity at the Andover Seminary, tak- 
ing his degree in 1823. In the autumn of the same year he 
became principal of Washington Academy in East Machias, 
Me., where he remained until 1828, when he removed to 
Portland, and took charge of the Free-street Seminary for young 
ladies, which he conducted for twelve years. Afterwards he 
removed to Boston, and opened a young ladies' school, which 
he kept for many years. He was a very energetic and success- 
ful teacher, and outside of his school worked actively in the 
interest of education. He was an officer of the American In- 
stitute of Education. In the natural sciences he was especially 
interested, and about the year 1845 he suggested to ]\Ir. 
Whipple the idea of daguerrotyping microscopic views. It 
was successfully attempted, and since then lias been practised 
in Europe and America, and has been of great service. It is 



54 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

believed that to him belono^s the credit of first conceivins^ this 
idea. 

The success of Mr. Adams as a teacher led him to re-main in 
that profession, instead of entering the active ministry. He 
was, however, ordained as an evangelist at East Machias, 
1 March, 1825, where he preached frequently. Indeed, he 
never' entirely relinquished preaching, to the latest years of his 
life. 

Mr. Adams was a man of beautiful character; unselfish, 
patient, earnest, and energetic, but modest and unassuming. 

He was married to Miss Ruth Haven, daughter of Rev. 
Joseph Haven, of Rochester, N.H., 20 July, 1823. She died 
1 October, 1826, leaving one daughter, who is still living. 
He married, 27 October, 1827, Miss Adeline Dana, daughter of 
David Dana, Esq., of Portland, Me., who, with four children, 
survives him. 

[An obituary notice, by Prof. Samuel Harris, of Yale Col- 
lege, is to be found in the "Congregational Quarterly," April, 
1871.] 

1821. — William Hilliard, son of William Hilliard and 
Sarah Lovering Hilliard, was born in Cambridge, 15 October, 
1803. His father, an active and prominent citizen of Cam- 
bridge, was a member of the firm of Cummings and Hilliard, 
now, through many intermediate changes, represented by Little, 
Brown, & Co. His grandfather. Rev. Timothy Hilliard (H.C. 
1764), was pastor of a church in Cambridge. Mr. Hilliard 
was a member of the Law School in Cambridge, and in due 
season was admitted to the bar. His professional life was 
mostly passed in Boston. He was appointed master in chan- 
cery by Gov. Andrew. Several years before his death he 
was severely injured by being thrown from a carriage. He 
never fully recovered from the effects of this accident, which 
was undoubtedly the remote cause of his last illness. He was 
a man of a very social nature, with a decided vein of humor, 
and a copious store of illustrative anecdotes. He died in Bos- 
ton, 8 September, 1869. He married Elizabeth IS'ewhall, of 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 55 

Boston. His widow and two daughters, Julia Elizabeth and 
Sarah Miriam, survive him. 

1822. — John Mason, son of Kev. William and Abigail 
(Watson) Mason, was born In Castine, Me., 14 September, 
1800. His father, the Rev. William Mason, was a native of 
Princeton, Mass., and graduated at Harvard In 1792. He 
was married to Abigail Watson, of Leicester, Mass., 19 July, 
1799; was settled over a parish in Castine, Me., where he 
remained until quite advanced in years, when he removed to 
Bangor, and died in 1847. 

Rev. Thomas Mason, of Northfield, Mass., brother of William 
Mason, graduated at Harvard in 1796. 

The great-grandfather of William Mason, on the maternal 
side, was Rev. Joseph Baxter, of Medfield, Mass., who gradu- 
ated at Harvard, in 1693. 

John Mason was fitted for college under the instruction of 
his father, and entered Harvard in 1818. He received his 
degree of A.B. in 1822, and that of M.D. at Harvard Medical 
School, in 1825. 

He practised for six months in Hallowell, Me. ; then re- 
moved to Bangor, which place was ever after his home, and 
where he continued the practice of medicine, until a few years 
previous to his death, when declining health compelled him to 
retire from the active duties of life. 

2 December, 1847, he was married to Caroline Rogers (Fair- 
field) Dexter, who was the daughter of Jotham and Caroline 
(Rogers) Fairfield, and who was born at Norridgewock, Me., 
3 April, 1818. 

The children of John and Caroline Mason were John Rogers, 
born 21 August, 1848 ; William Castein, born 1 September, 
1852 ; Arthur Mortimer, born 12 January, 1857. 

The life which this record commemorates was not marked by 
any striking events, but, like that of most physicians, was a 
round of dally cares and labors, — labors which his active, ener- 
getic nature made welcome, and the giving up of" which was 
harder for him to bear than tlic pain attending disease. 

In 1865, at Cambridge, Mass., he was attacked with paralysis. 



56 NECROLOGY OF ALUMXI [1869-72. 

the malady which, after years of weariness, terminated his 
life. 

Day by day he became more and more feeble, until the wan- 
ing hours of 1870 found him faint and unconscious, his steps 
nearing the shores of the dark river. In the early morning of 
1 January, 1871, he passed over. 

1822. — Caleb Stetsox was born at Kingston, 12 July, 
1793. His father was Thomas, afterwards of Harvard, a de- 
scendant of Cornet Robert Stetson, who, with William Bradford 
and John Freeman, were the first commissioned officers of horse 
in the Plymouth Colony (1658). His mother was Elizabeth 
Cook, of Kingston, descendant of Edward Gray, who came over 
in the " Mayflower" with his guardian. Gov. Winslow, and mar- 
ried his niece. 

Mr. Stetson fitted for college with Prof. AVood, at Andover, 
and entered with the class of 1821. In 1819 the memorable 
rebellion occurred ; and among the various suspensions and 
rustications which followed, he went into the next class, with 
which he was graduated, with the highest, or near the highest, 
honors. He soon after entered the DIvinitv School, orraduatino^ 
thence in 1826, and was ordained pastor of the First Unitarian 
Society in Medford, 28 February, 1827. In the same year he 
married Julia Meriam, daughter of Rufus and Martha Meriam, 
of Lexington. 

He resigned his Medford parish in 1848, and accepted a call 
to South Scituate, where he continued in the ministry till 1859, 
when he determined to retire from its active duties. He removed 
to Lexington in that year, and at once was invited by the Follen 
church to become its pastor. Mr. Stetson accepted this invi- 
tation, and officiated till about 1862, when he discontinued 
preaching altogether, and lived at the homestead of Mrs. Stet- 
son's family, the "House of the Battle Field," where Captain 
Parker's company assembled on the morning when the British 
force marched up to Lexington. Being in that year under lease 
to one Bucknam for a tavern, this house has passed, with 
its bullet holes and well-preserved antiquity, into history as 
"Bucknam's Tavern." His death occurred there, 17 Mav, 1870. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 57 

Throughout his life he was devoted to his profession. This 
was not without a love of social enjoyment, and his geniality 
and large heart always surrounded him with hosts of friends. 
His brilliant wit and kindly humor will not soon be forgotten. 
He was always an earnest student ; yet the advancement of the 
cause of God, and practical and real reforms, were nearest him. 
A man of quick sympathies, his religion was largely pervaded 
with the tenderest interest in the welfare of others. The human- 
itarian side of the gospel — the humanity of Christ — took a deep 
hold of his nature, and hence he preached the religion of reform. 
At an early period of the antislavery struggle, when it cost 
something to preach for freedom of the slave, he espoused his 
cause and pleaded for his emancipation. He took but little part 
in politics. He was wont to say that he did enough in that 
direction by obtaining for Prof. Edward Everett his first con- 
gressional nomination in 1824. 

He was too much occupied in the work of the ministry for 
authorship ; but quite a number of his orations and discourses 
were printed and published. 

His last appearance before any numerous audience was at 
the funeral service of John Pierpont, in Medford, 30 August, 
1866. 

Mr. Stetson's death called forth various warm tributes to his 
worth, several of which are recognized in the funeral discourse 
preached the Sunday following that event by his friend and 
pupil, Kev. W. P. Tilden. 

1822. — Alonzo Hill, born in Harvard, Mass., 20 June, 
1800, was the son of Oliver Hill and Mary (Goldsmith) Hill. 
He was a quiet boy, preferring to read in some undisturbed 
corner, rather than engage in the usual work or play of a 
farmer's son. Though the village was peculiarly devoid of any 
stimulant to intellectual life, — unless the lawsuits tradition 
says the inhabitants indulged in may be so termed, — he said, 
in later years, he never remembered the time when he had not 
determined to get a collegiate education, and do some good 
work in the world. He attended the town school, which kept 
ten weeks each summer and winter, till he was sixteen years 

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58 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

old. Then he began Latin and Greek, with the occasional 
assistance of the minister of the parish, Rev. Mr. Bemis. 

This self-education, and three months spent at Groton Acad- 
emy, under the charge of Eev. Mr. Conant, afterwards settled 
at Leominster, were his preparation for college, which he 
entered in 1818. But ill-prepared in his studies, still suffer- 
ing from poor health, and dependent on his own exertions for 
means to carry him through, he expected and aimed at no dis- 
tinctions ; only sought, with his limitations, to do the best he 
might, but soon found that he was not doing and could not do him- 
self justice, and always spoke of his college course as one of trial 
and discouragement. After his graduation he became assistant- 
teacher at Leicester Academy, Mr. John Richardson being 
principal. His leisure time was faithfully devoted to the study 
of languages and literature. In the spring of 182-1 he entered 
the Divinity School, and he speaks of the instruction of Prof. 
Xorton during the next two years and three months as having 
a marked influence in the development of his mind. He boarded 
for a time at Prof. Farrar's, and never ceased to hold in grate- 
ful remembrance the kindly suggestions of Mrs. Farrar, the 
lack of which is often so painfully felt by young men deprived 
of then' accustomed domestic and social influences. 

He preached his first sermon in Canton, and after supplying 
the jDulpit at Danvers and ^Yatertown a few times, he preached 
in ^Yorcester, 28 October, 1826. At the close of seven Sun- 
days he went to Washington and Baltimore, to fulfil previous 
engagements, and there he received proffers of a longer service ; 
but 1 January he received a call to settle in Worcester, which 
he accepted^ and 2S ]\larch, 1827, he was settled as junior 
pastor, with Dr. Bancroft, over the Second Congregational 
Society. 

On 29 December, 1830, he was married to Frances Mary 
Clarke, daughter of Hugh Hamilton Clarke, a merchant of Bos- 
ton, and Xancy Barnard, daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Barnard, of 
Amherst, X.H. 2 January, 1832, his only son, Hamilton 
Alonzo Hill, was born, and 16 April,. 1836, a daughter, 
Frances Anne. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 59 

A disease of the throat, induced by preaching when hoarse, 
threatening serious consequences, his parish voted him a leave 
of absence, and he spent the winter of 1837-38 with his wife in 
Cuba. For twenty-five years he served on the School Board, 
much of the time as chairman, and, with his associates, steadily 
advanced the standard of the schools, and endeavored to make 
them among the best in the commonwealth. 

In 1851 he received the degree of doctor of divinity from 
Harvard, and from 1851 to 1854 was on the Board of Over- 
seers. He was early connected with the Worcester Antiquarian 
Society, and in 1865 was elected recording secretary, which 
office he retained till his death. He also was an officer of the 
" Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians," and 
the " Society for Assisting the Families of Indigent Clergymen." 

On 2 February, 1845, a call was made for a second Unitarian 
Society, a measure which, though it was to him the sundering 
of many intimate ties, he most strenuously advocated, feeling 
that the rapid growth of the town demanded such a step. In 
1856, his parish, with thoughtful kindness, again gave him an 
opportunity to travel ; and, with his wife and daughter, he spent 
eight months in Europe, and came back, as he said, "enriched, 
and the better able to enrich others." 

During his life it had been his duty to write the memorial 
sermons of many parishioners who had been prominent among 
the men of their generation, — Dr. Bancroft, 1839 ; Dr. Thayer, 
1840 ; Judge Kinnicutt, 1858 ; Gov. Davis, 1854 ; Gov. Lin- 
coln, 1868 ; Judge Allen, 1869. These were some of the 
friends whose departure he was called upon to record, and in a 
vivid, yet discriminating portrayal of their characters, one 
element of his power as a writer is apparent. In addition to 
the above printed sermons are the following : On the deaths of 
Hon. John W. Lincoln, 1852; Mr. WilUam Hudson, 1862; 
Lieut. Thomas J. Spurr, 1862 ; the ordination sermon of 
Rev. Josiah Moore, at Athol, 1830 ; one in the " Liberal 
Preacher," July, 1836 ; one in the "Monthly Religious Maga- 
zine," October, 1848 ; one in Ilingham, 1850 ; one on the 
"Dedication of the new Meeting-house " in Worcester, 1851; 



60 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

one, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his settlement, 1852 : and 
another, tlie fortieth anniversary, 1867 ; also the following 
addresses : '' To the People ; " at the installation of Mr. Alger in 
Marlborough : at " Festival at Leicester Academy : " " On Tem- 
perance ; '" " To the Children's Friend Society,*' Worcester ; 
charge at the ordination of Rev. George M. Bartol, at Lancaster. 
Also short addresses, printed in the "Proceedings of the Anti- 
quarian Society," 1859-65. In the pamphlet containing his 
fortieth anniversary sermon is also an accomit of the addresses 
made at the pleasant social gathering which fitly terminated 
the religious services of the church. 

On 17 April, 1867, he sent in a letter of resignation to the 
parish, in which he did not contemplate any abrupt dissolution of 
the tie which had so long bound pastor and people, and which was 
to him a sacred tie, but he felt it would be for the best interest 
of the parish to have a young minister, who' should attract the 
young, who were to take the places of those who had settled him, 
and who had mostly passed on. ''How beautifully he met the 
new necessity, how manfully he surrendered his work when the 
hour came, even though to surrender required more manliness 
than to assume, I need not tell you," is the testimony of his 
successor. It was the ending of his life's work ; he had had few 
personal ambitions, no outside projects, and he was never 
happier than when pursuing the usual routine of parish labor. 
He continued the duties of his office till the autumn of 1868, 
when a severe illness rendered it evident that he could not carry 
the burden any longer. 

On 10 February, 1869, Rev. Edward H. HaU was installed 
as junior pastor. Dr. Hill still retaining, at the request of the 
parish, the title of senior pastor, though freed from all responsi- 
bilities and duties. 

He died in Worcester, 1 February, 1871, after an illness of 
seven weeks, grateful for the past, and thinking of the future 
with hope, which was already a benediction. 

In the "Memorial to Dr. Hill" are collected most of the 
addresses and resolutions which his death called forth. In 
addition are the folio win o^ : "A Commemorative Discourse, 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 61 

read before the Worcester Association at Sterling, and repeated 
before the Worcester Conference," by Dr. Allen, now in printed 
form. " A New-England Minister." Inquirer, London, 22 
April. Obituary notices in the " Religious Monthly '' of March, 
in the "Proceedings of the Antiquarian Society," 16 April, in 
the " Boston Transcript," in the " Register," and in the " Even- 
ing Gazette " and " Spy " of Worcester. 

1824. — Jeremiah Chaplin Stickney, son of John and 
Martha (Chaplin) Stickney, was born in Rowley, 6 January, 
1805. He was fitted for college partly at Bradford Academy 
and partly at the Latin school in Salem. He entered college 
in 1820. On leaving college, he studied law with the late 
Judge Cummins, of Salem, and was admitted to the bar in 
1827. Being of a democratic race, he supported with great 
zeal, by tongue and pen, the claims of Gen. Jackson to the pres- 
idency ; and upon his election, received from him the office of 
postmaster at Lynn, which he held till 1839, when he resigned. 
He was offered the place of United-States attorney for Massa- 
chusetts, but declined. In 1839 and 1840 he served in the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1853 he w^as 
appointed postmaster at Lynn, by Pres. Pierce, and held the 
office till 1858. He had thus far always been a democrat, but 
the pro-slavery course of Pres. Buchanan caused him to change 
his views, and he voted for Pres. Lincoln and Gen. Grant. 
The practice of his profession mainly occupied his time and 
thoughts, but he was a frequent contributor to the public jour- 
nals. During the Rebellion he was a zealous supporter of the 
government. He died, 3 August, 1869. He was a gentleman 
of the old school ; firm in his convictions, but courteous to all. 
His loss was lamented, and his memory is held in high esteem, 
by all who knew him. He married, 25 December, 1829, Mary, 
daughter of John Frazier, of Philadelphia. Their children were 
Charles Henry, born 29 September, 1830 ; John Biiffington, 
born 25 May, 1832 ; Martha Anne, born 5 September, 1834, 
married, 5 March, 1868, to Stephen II. Andrews, of Lawrence, 
Kansas. 



62 NECROLOGY OF ALOIXI [1869-72. 

1824. — WiLLiAAi GoRDOX Ste.irxs was born in Chelms- 
ford. ]\Iass.. 22 Xovember. 1804. He was the only son of 
Asahel Stearns, professor of law in Harvard University. His 
mother, Frances TTentworth, was the daughter of Benjamin 
"Whitney, of Hollis. high sheriff of Hillsborough County, X.H. 
He entered Harvard College in 1820, graduated in 1824, hold- 
ing a respectable rank for scholarship, and always esteemed by 
the faculty and by his fellow-students, for the excellent and 
substantial qualities of his mind and character, though his native 
reserve and shyness made him less known than he deserved to 
be. On leaving college he devoted himself to the study of the 
law, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1827, and he then 
began the practice of his profession in Boston, and in 1834 
entered into partnership with Theophilus Parsons, Esc|., now 
professor of law in Harvard University. 

In 1844 he accepted the stewardship of Harvard College. 
He held this office for twenty-six years, till the autumn of 1870, 
when, with a presentiment of coming evil, he sent in his resig- 
nation, after a most diligent, faithful, judicious, and acceptable 
performance of the duties of his place. In December of that 
year, after imprudent exposure on a very cold and windy day, 
he was suddenly seized with a paralytic affection, which deprived 
him of the power of speech, and to some extent of the use of his 
limbs and of his mental faculties. From this he never recovered. 
After more than a year of trial and stiffering under his disease, 
he was at length released from his prison in the llesh, 31 January, 
1872, at the age of sixty-seven. 

]\Ir. Stearns, inheriting much of his excellent father's nature, 
was a man of sound intellect and judgment, cultivated by read- 
ing and meditation, and of sterling equalities of mind and heart. 
Without brilliant gifts, and of a modest and retiring disposition, 
he was not destined to shine in the world. His life was a quiet 
and uneventful one. He preferred a quiet and unsho wy career, 
and was content with the tranquil usefulness of his lot. Though 
he never sought society, and confined himself to his office and 
his solitary home, there was no lack in him of kindness or sym- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 63 

pathy. And those who knew him found him a genial companion 
and a faithful friend. Under his outward reserve beat a warm 
and generous heart, ever ready to help in time of need. Strict 
accuracy, fidelity to his trusts, a high sense of honor, the most 
scrupulous integrity and conscientiousness marked all the acts 
of his life. He was a man of a reverent and religious nature ; 
yet in this, as in other respects, reticent and undemonstrative, 
feeling more than he said. We part from him as one of the 
true men who, in a life of quiet and steady service, have done 
well their part on earth, and entered, we trust, on higher and 
happier work in some other of the "many mansions" of our 
"Father's house." 

1825. — Francis John Higginson was born in Boston, 6 
May, 1806. His father was Stephen Higginson, the third of 
that name, and lineally descended from Francis and John, early 
ministers of the first church in Salem. His mother was Louisa, 
daughter of Capt. Thomas Storrow, of the British army. 

In college, his standing as a scholar was very respectable. 
His course, however, was rather solitary, with the exception of 
one constant intimate in the person of his classmate, Horatio 
Greenough, afterwards the distinguished sculptor. On gradu- 
ating, he entered upon the study of medicine. To this, accord- 
ing to the testimony of one of the most eminent of his fellow- 
students, he showed thorough devotion. He took his medical 
degree in 1828, began practice in this vicinity, and continued it 
for ten years. In September, 1838, he went to the West, and 
established himself at Grand Bapids, Michigan. He was soon 
afterwards appointed one of the regents of the University of 
Michigan. He continued there until December, 1841, when, 
his own health and that of his family being affected by the 
climate of the West, he removed to Brattleboro', Vt., where 
he passed the residue of his working life. In May, 1869, he 
returned to Brookline, Mass., with health shattered, and died at 
his residence there, 9 March, 1872. 

In 1834 he became nmch interested in the antislavcry move- 
ment, then just beginning, and published a small volume, with 
the modest title of "Remarks on Slavery," which was much 



64 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

esteemed by many thoughtful men of that day. It showed in a 
simple and dispassionate manner the capacity for freedom of the 
African race, of which evidence has not been wanting. in their 
subsequent history. 

As a practitioner of medicine, he was noted for his devotion 
to his patients. At Brattleboro', where he labored for most of 
his life, he was much beloved. His remains, interred at the 
beautiful cemetery in that place, were followed to the grave by 
the principal citizens of the town, as well as by many of the 
poor, whom he had attended faithfully and gratuitously. 

Possessed of polished manners, and a courtesy resting on the 
sure basis of benevolence, he was a gentleman not only out- 
wardly, but in his every instinct. He was incorruptible and 
pure. A distrust of his own powers and ill health, which came 
upon him in middle life, prevented his attaining worldly success. 

He married, in June, 1831, Susan C, daughter of Francis 
Dana and Susan (Higginson) Channing. He left two daugh- 
ters, and through the elder, married to Francis Cabot, of 
BrooklinCj seven grandchildren. 

1825. — Thomas Sherwin was born 26 March, 1799, at 
Westmoreland, N.H. He was the only son of David and 
Hannah (Pritchard) Sherwin, both natives of Boxford, Mass. 
Before Thomas was four years of age his parents removed to New 
Ipswich, N.H., and soon after to the adjoining town of Temple. 
At the age of seven and a half he lost his mother, who died of 
consumption. In March, 1807, he went to reside with his rela- 
tive, Dr. James Crombie, a man of professional skill, and widely 
respected. During this period Thomas worked in the garden 
and upon the farm, in addition to which he frequently accom- 
panied the doctor on his round of professional visits. Here he 
continued six years, generally attending the district school 
through the winter, and for a short time receiving instruction 
from Solomon P. Miles, then a student at Dartmouth. During 
this time he manifested great love both for books and for nature, 
and was scrupulously faithful to every duty. On leaving Dr. 
Crombie, his father gratified his earnest desire for a more 
thorough education by sending him to New Ipswich Academy. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 65 

Anxious as he was to continue his studies, his father's circum- 
stances were such, from the loss of property, that he could not 
longer afford to gratify his son's wishes, and he was therefore 
apprenticed in 1813 to the clothier's trade in the town of Gro- 
ton. Preparing dye stuffs, keeping up the fires, watching the 
machinery, now demanded his attention. The various processes 
of fulling, dyeing, and dressing, for six successive years, occu- 
pied nearly the whole of his time. Still, through all this hard- 
ship and toil, aspirations for a collegiate education never forsook 
him. Relying upon his own efforts, he made the utmost use of 
every opportunity. In 1819 he taught a district school; in 
1820 he entered the academy at Groton. In the following 
March he went to the academy at New Ipswich, where he con- 
tinued until 1821, when he presented himself at Cambridge, and 
passing an honorable examination, he became, in answer to the 
long-cherished desire of his heart, a member of Harvard Uni- 
versity. To defray his expenses he taught school one winter 
at Groton, one at Leominster, and in 1825 took charge of the 
academy in Lexington. Faithful as a student, he was also 
singularly successful as a teacher, and was universally respected 
and beloved. Many yet living, who in those days were so fortu- 
nate as to receive his instructions, speak of him with admiration 
and gratitude. 

At college he was the classmate of men who afterwards dis- 
tino^uished themselves in no common deo^ree. Rev. Francis 
Cunningham, the Hon Charles Francis Adams, Admiral Davis, 
Rev. Dr. Hedge, Rev. Dr. Lothrop, Dr. Augustus A. Gould, 
Allen Putnam, C. K. Dillaway, and Judge Ames ; and among 
such men he not only sustained himself with credit, but gradu- 
ated amono; the ten best scholars of his class. With untiring: in- 
dustry he worked daily, on an average, sixteen hours out oF the 
twenty-four. In the classics he kept himself among the fore- 
most, and as a mathematical scholar he had no superior in his 
class. Thus with honor he graduated in 1825 ; and the college 
government gave proof of the high estimation in which he was 
held, by appointing him, in 1827, tutor of mathematics, which 
office he acceptably filled until he voluntarily relinquished it for 

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their country, both in the army and navy, during the late 
war. 

For forty years Mr. Shervvin was devoted to the best interests 
of the Enoflish Hi^-h School, until he lifted it to such excellence 
that it was acknowledged to rank among the first in the country. 
Mr. Fraser, who was sent from England to examine our schools 
and report to the British Parliament, stated officially, on his 
return, that the English High School struck him as the model 
school of the United States. 

In July, 1869, he attended the school festival; on 21 and 
22 he examined candidates for admission ; and the day following, 
with a book in his hand, and in his pleasant home, he instantly 
and peacefully expired. 

Like Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, he had lived, and like Dr. 
Arnold, in the midst of his labors, and encircled by loving 
friends, he suddenly passed away. 

Like Dr. Arnold, his name had become identified with the 
cause of education, and like him he has left a memory to be 
held in universal reverence and affection. 

1826. — Benjamin Cox, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Smith) 
Cox, was born in Salem, 9 January, 1806. He was fitted for 
college at the Latin school in that place, and entered college in 
1822. After graduation he pursued his medical studies with 
the late Dr. A. L. Pierson, and, on receiving the degree of 
M.D., established himself in his native city, where he passed his 
life in the diligent practice of his profession, with the exception 
of a year or more spent in a tour in Europe, ten or twelve 
years ago. He gradually accumulated a large practice, and 
acquired a fortune by diligence in his calling and a careful hus- 
bandry of his earnings. Pie was a counsellor of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society, and was successively, for several 
years, librarian, secretary, vice-president, and president of the 
Essex Southern District Medical Society. In his younger days 
he was an active member of the Salem Independent Cadets ; and 
upon the organization of the Veteran Cadet Association, he was 
elected surgeon, and continued to hold this position until his 
death. Dr. Cox was eminently a gentleman, of fine physique 



6S NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

and attractive personal appearance. He combined a remarkable 
dignity of demeanor with great suavity of manners, a genial 
disposition, and a skill in his profession, which won the confi- 
dence and attachment of those to whom he ministered. Dr. 
Cox married, 30 December, 1841, Sarah A. Daland, widow of 
Henry A. Daland, of Salem, and daughter of James Silver, of 
Saleni. She died, 3 May, 1853, leaving no children. His 
second wife was Susan S. Daland, daus^hter of Tucker Daland. 
By lier he had two children : a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, 
Sally. 

1826. — Charles Russell Lowell, born 30 October, 1807, 
was the eldest son of Rev, Dr. Charles Lowell (H.C. 1800). 
His mother was Harriet Brackett Spence, daughter of Keith 
Spence and Mary Waill, of Portsmouth, N.H. 

After graduating, he studied law at the Law School in 
Northampton, and at the office of Mr. Charles C Loring in 
Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar at the October 
term of 1821i. In about four years he abandoned the legal 
profession, and went into business. Proving unsuccessful in 
this, he found employment in the Boston Athenaeum, where he 
passed the last eighteen years of his life, and where his services 
were greatly prized. He died of apoplexy, while on a visit to 
Washington, D.C., 23 June, 1870. 

He married, 18 April, 1832, Anna Cabot, daughter of the 
late Patrick T. Jackson, of Boston. They had four children, 
viz., Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. (H.C. 1854), distinguished as 
a scholar in college, and afterwards the renowned cavalry officer 
in the war of the Rebellion ; James Jackson Lowell (H.C. 
1858), also the first scholar in his class, and an officer who 
died nobly in the service of his country ; and two daughters. 
Through his eldest son, and youngest daughter (who married 
George Putnam, Jr., of Boston), Mr. Lowell left several grand- 
children. 

1827. — William Bradbury Kingsbury, son of Aaron 
Kingsbury, was born in Roxbury, 14 December, 1806. Fitted 
for college at Mr. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain. Entered 
college 1823. His college life was marked by no peculiarities, 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 69 

except a cheerful disposition. He aspired to no honors, either 
from the college or the class, and kept the even tenor of his way 
without censure or panegyric. He graduated in course in 1827 ; 
and after a short time spent in reading law, entered into com- 
mercial life in Boston, in the firm of Kendall and Kingsbury, 
on Liverpool Wharf. In 1831 he married his cousin, Frances 
F. Fenner, of Providence, R.I. The firm of Kendall and 
Kingsbury was unfortunate in business, and was dissolved in 
1836. He was afterwards employed in managing trusts, and 
became treasurer of the Roxbury Gas Company, which office 
he retained till his death. He was also alderman of Roxbury 
in 1846. He had two children : Harriet, born 10 May, 1832 ; 
and Aaron, born 18 March, 1834. His wife and children sur- 
vive him. He was lono^ a member of the Amcultural Club of 
Roxbury. 

" As a citizen he was intelligent, public-spirited ; and his social 
and official intercourse was marked by the firmness and dignity 
of a true gentleman. And though it was his lot to encounter and 
bear the heaviest trials, he never allowed them to obscure from 
his fellow-men the innate feelings of tenderness and kindness 
that ever shone conspicuous in his disposition." He died at 
Roxbury, of erysipelas, 6 April, 1872. 

1827. — Edward A¥illiam Hook was born in Castine, 
Me., 1 May, 1807, son of Josiah and Sarah (Brown) Hook. 
His father was United-States collector of that port. En- 
tered college in 1823, and at once became distinguished for 
his manly independent character and attractive address. He 
conciliated all who knew him. Sincerely modest himself, he 
yet allowed no one to dictate to him, and so was an acknowledged 
leader. His rank was decidedly high, and placed him in the Phi 
Beta Kappa Society. His Commencement part in 1827 was 
a forensic disputation on the subject, '' Whether a state have a 
right to secede from the Union." He studied medicine in Boston, 
and received the degree of M.D, in 1832. His life subsccpiently 
led him to various places in the west and south-west, where he 
practised his profession. At one time he was resident in Adrian, 
Mich. ; at another in Liverpool, Texas. In 1845 he was at 



70 necboloctT of aLI^JSI [1869-72. 

Fort A ■ :. - , ^I: — , : - ;.\ ^equently he was at Hs.!!'? Bayou, Texas ; 
bu: ":v ~:\:'.\'- ::-:'t' :.: Alters, near Xew (J:'::.:;-. Ln.. where 
he ir .. _^ -'^ . • -"'1; after an illness o: z.:.r- months, of 
dropsy and congestion of the lirer. 

He married Phebe Perkins Whitby, of Lincolnville, Me., 23 
ALiy, 1843, and left one danghter, Harriet Bath, bom 6 Jan- 
uary, 1845. and one sn. Edmund Whitby, bom 10 January, 
1854. 

1^'f?^'. — XoETOX Thayzr. son or Caleb and Mary ; Hol- 
;::::^ Tiiaver. was bjrii in Brainrree. Mass.. 29 September. 
1802. : ::: B ston, of Talvular disease of the heart, 14 

September. 1 " ' , Until nineteen, he lived on a farm, with no 
^iUties for r^r : ,. improvement other than those afforded by 
the district s;ho I. kept only a few months in the year. He 
prepared for Cjlle^e a: A::" -vr A::.;U:::--: er:r:el Yale. 
1824; remained a jey:\ ':_:-:;_ -:::.: ^ - ::■ be 
chosen class-speaker, in :.::::: ::j. > : 1 yr. H in. In 
1825 he came to iHarvard, and won a good standing, though re- 
verses of fortune compelled him, during two-thirds of his course, 
to devote nearly half his time to teaching ; thus preventing him 
from reaching the high position he would otherwise have at- 
tained. A: :e _ i :ing, he taught a private school in Dor- 
chester three e -. - a - ib-master of the Boston Latin School 
one year, an n n _ enr i a classical school in Xew York city, 
vrini: ie :n in :ed with uninterrupted success for twenty-five 
years. Yne re i Ur of his life was passe<i! in retirement in 
B;-:n. 1^2 I'r-n. er. 1840. he married Lucy A. Wales, of 
YA;-..:nr:b, A.r^i::- :: Eiin::. :.n.i Lncy (BatesJ Wales. He 
leiT one n. i, n nr i ^Arn 

Lavr-nnii _:. rn Avn i.i= ::::^en ^r:As?::n: and he began 
stndyin^ i: :.: ;nr - rr : :i nn J ni^v" A. rr- n. :i Yevr York : 
Ar: nniin_ n::n _n^ nn_^n :.-:_. en ::- nnr-: ;t ^:"i':. '.:> teaching, 
he reln.nnn a rn n . nn _ n : : n n ::r which he 

had a AnA i n^:e :ni nn:n_ r nines. 

Jin :he sen _ ities, forced upon r loionic 

in - n . — i " -ere ; n r n gs of which were borne with ad- 

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1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 71 

tinued to the last to receive from those who knew him respect 
for his acquisitions and aifectionate esteem for his unblemished 
personal character. Though of an impulsive temperament, he 
was firm in following any course he marked out for himself; and 
as an illustration of his persistency, it may be stated that his daily 
walk in the earliest morning, of four and a half miles, through 
snow and rain, heat and cold, was never omitted for a period of 
twenty-five years, — this exercise being his conscientious prep- 
aration for the duties of the school-room. For reasons already 
intimated, Mr. Thayer was not as widely and publicly known as 
he would have been under more favoring circumstances. But 
kindred and friends, who enjoyed the closest intercourse with 
him, cherish the memory of his trained intellectual ability, genial 
disposition, and pure moral worth, and remember him as a man 
to be honored for his sterling principles and faithful work. 

1829. — Joseph Angier was the youngest of seven children 
of Dr. John and Rebecca (Drew) Angier. Dr. Angier was 
born in Southborough, 4 July, 1761 ; died in Framingham, 2 
January, 1843. Mrs. Rebecca Angier was born in Durham, 
N.H., 19 March, 1776 ; died at Medford, 24 August, 1849. 

Joseph Angier was born in Durham, N.H., 24 April, 1808, 
where his parents resided, after marriage, for thirty years ; they 
removed to Natick, Mass., in his childhood. He was for a time 
at Framingham Academy, then in charge of Mr. Pike ; but his 
principal teacher was his oldest brother, John, who for many 
years kept a school of high reputation at Medford, at which 
Joseph spent three years. To this brother, indeed, he mainly 
owed not only the preparation for college, but the opportunity 
of his collegiate and professional education also. He entered 
Harvard College in 1824, but, at the beginning of its junior 
year, joined the next following class, and graduated in 1829. 

He at once entered the Divinity School, Cambridge, and grad- 
uated thence in 1832, readino^ a dissertation at leavin<»' on 
" The Young Minister's Anticipations." 

In the ensuing autumn he went to Montreal in the service of 
the newly gathered Unitarian Society. There he passed the 
winter of 1832-33, and, on renewed invitation, the succecdino- 



72 NECROLOGY OF ALOINI 



[1869-72. 



winter. ^Vhile rliere he became engaged in a public contro- 
versy with Rev. Mr. Bethune, pastor of the English Church, 
on the theological points at issue between Unitarians and Trini- 
tarians. It was carried on in the public journals. ^Av. Angler's 
communications appearing in the " Canadian Courant.'" 

He was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church 
and Society in Xew Bedford,. 20 May, 1"^35. At the end of 
two years this connection was dissolved. In September. 1837, 
he was installed pastor of the First Congregational Church and 
Society in Milton. Here he remained eight years. He then 
took charge of the Unitarian Society in "Washington, D.C., 
declining, however, an invitation to become their settled min- 
ister. 

On 16 October, 184'^, he embarked for Europe, and passed 
the winter and spring in travel, and returned to America m 
May, 1^47. Until 1>53 he was engaged in the service of dif- 
ferent churches, chietly at South Boston and at Troy, X.Y. 
Ill health of a serious nature compelled him to leave Troy in 
April, 1853. Probably he was never really well afterwards; 
and he appears to have decided that he ought not again to as- 
sume permanent charge of any church. In 1854 he had an 
engagement at Exeter, X.H. : and in 1855 and 1856 he was the 
minister of the Second Congregational Church at Leicester. 
During 1859 he preached to the Chiu'ch of the Messiah, Syra- 
cuse, X.Y.. during the absence in Europe of its pastor, Eev. 
S. J. May. From 1861 to 1864 he was mostly serving the 
Unitarian Society at Haverhill. He then visited Philadelpliia 
and Baltimore, partly for his health, a bronchial difficulty caus- 
ing him much inconvenience. In the spring of 1865 he under- 
took a missionary tour of the north-western states, preaching 
at Chicago and elsewhere : spent the summer in Minnesota, his 
health improving in its dry. pure climate : preached many weeks 
at St. Paul, and organized a chm'ch and Sunday school there. 
He passed the following winter at Thomaston, Me. : but his 
health again failed. In the following summer he preached in 
AVilmiugton, Del., and at ^Washington. While here his illness 
increased, and he could no longer attempt any protracted or 



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73 



distant work. He continued in ministerial duty as far as able, 
among other places, at Bridgewater. 

But this was the last of his active life. He could now serve 
only by patient waiting. In December, 1869, he went to Flor- 
ida, bronchitis and couo;h bavins; much weakened him. Durino^ 
the summer following he was at different resorts of invalids, but 
all to no. purpose. Then followed a long, weary, and painful 
illness, confining him mostly to the house during the rest of his life. 

Many instances are related of the strong personal attachment 
to him which sprang up where he ministered ; and many testi- 
monials are given of his devotedness to his ministerial work. 
He shunned conspicuous notice, and shrank from making or ad- 
mitting claims to personal credit. He was of a peculiarly sen- 
sitive and sympathetic nature, of a nice sense of honor, very 
considerate in judgment of others, w4th a personal dignity de- 
void of formality, and a constant courtesy. "Young people 
were especially fond of him, and this art of attaching them was 
always fresh in his enfeebled frame." 

His marked and especial gift was his power of musical ex- 
pression, — a rich, sweet voice being joined with a pure musical 
taste. This appeared in very early life, and was carefully cul- 
tivated by his parents, both of whom excelled in singing. In 
collen^e and at the Divinitv School he led the choirs ; and delio^ht- 
ful memories of those services of sacred sonof remain with those 
who participated in them. He never sought to display this 
talent, however, and willingly sang only when moved from 
within. In the gatherings of intimate friends, — notably of his 
classmates, with whom he was a very great favorite, — he would 
thus confer such pleasure as is given to but few to do ; and it 
was remarkable how little the early characteristics of his voice 
were impaired, even at sixty years. 

He was married, 25 April, 1836, to Elizabeth Rotch, of New 

Bedford. She was tlie daughter of Joseph and Anna (Smith) 

Rotch. His wife and their only two children survive him : 

William Kotch, born 9 March, 1837 ; Josej[)hine, born 25 

March, 1840 (married William Binney, Esq., of Providence, 

R.I., April, 1871). 

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74 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1809-72. 

He (lied :it liis resldt'iicc, Milton Hill, near Boston, 12 April, 
1«S71. riio timrral services were larixely attended, 15 April, 
in the ehureh where he had onee ministered, addresses hein^ 
made by Kev. Dr. Morison, Ifev. James F. Clarke, and Kev. 
John Weiss. That of the last named was printed in the Boston 
" Daily Advertiser" of 21> April, 1<S71, and in the "Christian 
Ke<::ister '' of the same date; and also by the family, in pam- 
phlet form, for more private distrihiition. The memorial lines, 
by his classmate, Dr. (). W, Holmes, "J. A., 1S71," printed 
in the "Atlantic Monthly" for April, 1872, are also especially 
to be noted. 

1829. — William Bkigiiam, son of Charles and Susanna 
(Baylis) Brigham, was born in Grafton, Mass., 2tj September, 
l8U<i. He was fitted for collcixe at Leicester Academy in a sin- 
gle year. 1\q was a diligent student in college, and had a good 
rank in his class. After graduation he read law in Boston with 
George Mercy, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1832, and 
soon had a sutHcient amount of professional employment. He 
was a representative from Boston in the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives in the years 1834, 1835, 1836, 1841, 1849, 
and l.S()«). In 1851) he was a member of the Republican Con- 
vention at Pliiladelphia ; 29 April, 1835, he delivered the centen- 
nial address at Grafton, which was published. In 1836 he was 
selected by Gov. Everett to com[)ile and edit the laws of Plym- 
outh Colony, published in the same year. For many years 
before his death he lived, in the summer season, in the old home- 
stead at Grafton, and devoted himself with much zeal to agri- 
cultural pursuits. Several of his addresses before agricultural 
societies have been published. 11 June, 1840, he married 
Margaret Austin Brooks (born 6 July, 1817), daughter of Isaac 
Brooks and Mercy (Tufts) Brooks, of Charlestown. His chil- 
dren are William Tufts, born 24 May, 1841 (H.C. 1862) ; 
Charles Brooks, born 17 January, 1845 (H.C. 1866); Ed- 
ward Austin, born 23 February, 1846 ; Mary Brooks, born 26 
December, 1851 ; Arthur Austin, born 8 June, 1857. 

He dicil in Boston, 9 July, 1869. In 1853 he was chosen 
a member of the Massachusetts Historical oociety , and was one 



1869-72.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 75 

of the most useful and valuable members of that body. His 
knowledge of the early history of Massachusetts was accurate 
and extensive. A lecture by him, delivered 19 January, 1869, 
on the colony of New Plymouth and its relations to Massaclm- 
setts, — one of a course before the Lowell Institute, by members 
of the Historical Society, and published in a volume called 
"Massachusetts and its Early History," — is highly creditable 
both to his research and insight. Mr. Brigham had a large 
practice, was a sound lawyer, a safe adviser, and enjoyed in a 
high degree the confidence and attachment of his clients. He 
was a man of a kindly spirit, of simple and pleasing manners, 
and had the affection and esteem of a large circle of friends. 

1829. — Rev. James Thurston was born in Newmarket, 
Rockingham County, N.H., 11 December, 1806. In 1820 he 
entered Phillips Academy at Exeter, N.H., where he continued 
till 1825, in which year he was admitted to Harvard College. 
His standing as an undergraduate, both as regards scholarship 
and character, was highly respectable. Soon after leaving col- 
lege, in 1829, he obtained the situation of assistant instructor 
in the English High School in Boston, in which office he con- 
tinued three years. In 1832 he entered the Divinity School at 
Cambridge. While a member of the senior class in that insti- 
tution he commenced preaching, in the winter of 1835, at Barn- 
stable, Mass. In 1836 he went to Tremont, 111., to take charge 
of a religious society, and to perform missionary service in the 
neighboring counties of that state and of Western Pennsylvania. 
In the autumn of 1837 he preached for a while in Philadelphia, 
supplying the pulpit of Rev. Mr. Furness. On 27 June, 1838, 
he was ordained as pastor of " The First Unitarian Church and 
Society " in Windsor, Vt. After having relinquished his con- 
nection with that society, in 1840, he took up his residence in 
Boston, occasionally preaching on the Sabbaths, and occupying 
himself during the rest of the week as agent, first of the Book 
and Pamphlet Society, and subsequently of the American Peace 
Society. In 1844, on 11 September, he was married in 
Charlestown, Mass., to Miss Elizabeth Austin, daughter of the 
late William Austin, Esq. The same year, 15 November, he 



76 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

entered into an engagement to take the pastoral charge of the 
old Congregational Church in Billerica, where he remained till 
15 May, 1850. From October, 1850, to the winter of 1853, 
he ministered to the Congregational Church in South Natick. 
In May, 1853, he was settled over the new Unitarian Church 
in North Cambridge ; but resigned in July, 1854. In Novem- 
ber, 1855, he took the office of pastor of the Congregational 
Unitarian Church in Lunenburg, which he held till the autumn 
of 1859. In April, 1862, he began to preach for the Second 
Congregational Society in Leicester, Mass., over which he was 
installed as pastor 17 November, 1863. His connection with 
that society having been dissolved in the spring of 1864, he 
was appointed an agent of the Massachusetts Temperance Alli- 
ance. At this period a bronchial disorder, to which he had 
been occasionally subject, increased to such a degree as to render 
it difficult, and sometimes impossible, for him to speak in public. 
For this reason he engaged in the business of life insurance, 
which — with the exception of the year 1865, spent in North 
Carolina as an agent of the Soldiers' Memorial Society, in the 
instruction of the freedmen — continued to give him employment 
during the residue of his life. His death, occasioned by bron- 
chitis, took place at his house in AYest Newton on the morn- 
ing of 13 January, 1872. 

Mr. Thurston was highly esteemed for his integrity, fidelity, 
kindness of disposition, and singleness of heart, by a large circle 
of acquaintance ; and was regarded with sincere respect and 
affection by the class of '29. Though constitutionally deficient 
in energy and elasticity, and not blessed with vigorous health, 
his duties were always conscientiously discharged according to 
his ability, and his life has left a good record, and, we trust, a 
good influence. 

1830. — Joseph Lyman, son of Joseph and Anne Jean 
(Robbins) Lyman, was born in Northampton, Mass., 17 Aug- 
ust, 1812. He was fitted for college chiefly at the Round-Hill 
School in Northampton, and entered college in 1826. He had 
a very good rank in his class, and was a great favorite, from his 
high animal spirits and rare personal beauty. After leaving 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 77 

college he studied law, and was duly admitted to the bar in 
Suffolk County. But the profession of the law was not much 
to his taste, and he was gradually diverted to more active em- 
ployments. He studied civil engineering, and became much 
interested in mining operations. He superintended the iron 
w^orks of Farrandsville, on the west branch of Susquehanna, in 
Pennsylvania. He helped to build one of the earliest railroads 
in the far south. He took part in the development of the New 
Boston Coal Basin in the anthracite region. In all these 
spheres of action he showed great energy and capacity. But 
w^hile yet a law student, all his plans and hopes, so far as an 
active life of continuous labor was concerned, were crushed by a 
cruel accident. He was thrown from a chaise, and received 
severe internal injuries, which darkened all his future life, and 
finally brought it to a close. Pain and prostration, with occa- 
sional interruptions only, were ever after his portion. He found 
relief from his sufferings in the calm monotony of sea, and made 
many voyages in the hope of final restoration, but gained only 
temporary alleviation, and not permanent cure. His life for 
many years was a struggle between a vigorous constitution and 
a strong will on the one hand, and hopeless disease on the other. 
After his marriage he lived a while in Boston, but afterwards 
bought a beautiful estate on the borders of Jamaica Pond, where 
the remainder of his days were passed, occupied in reading and 
writing, and finding his relaxation in the society of his family 
and friends. He took much interest in the political events of 
the time, but the subjects most congenial to him were social 
science and education. A friend of the antislavery cause, he 
was for some time editor of the "Boston Commonwealth." He 
was warmly attached to Theodore Parker, accompanied him to 
Switzerland, and devoted himself to the care of his failing health 
with devoted assiduity. He spent two years over Mr. Parker's 
manuscripts, — collating, arranging, copying, and annotating; 
and went to London with the author of the Life, and saw the 
work through the press. He had an extensive correspondence ; 
and among his correspondents were John Bright and Dcsor of 
Neufchatcl. 



78 , NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

Mr. Lyman died 14 August, 1871. He married Susan Bul- 
finch, daughter of Joseph Cooledge, Esq., of Boston. He had 
no children. 

An obituary notice appeared in the "Boston Daily Adver- 
tiser," 28 August, 1871 ; and a brief memoir, by his brother- 
in-law, J. P. Lesley, in the " Old and New," for November, 
1871. 

1832. — Samuel Pakkman Shaw, son of Kobert G. Shaw, 
was born in Boston, 19 November, 1813. Soon after graduat- 
ing he began the study of law, and after completing his studies 
removed to Parkman,'Me. Subsequently he lived at Water- 
ville and Portland. Wherever he resided, he seems to have 
enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow-townsmen, hav- 
ing filled, among other official positions, the office of president 
of a bank, and been a member of the governor's council. In 
1863 he took up his residence at Cambridge, Mass., and died 
at Paris, France, 7 December, 1869. 

He was married to Hannah Buck in 1841, by whom he had 
eleven children, of whom five, together with his widow, sur- 
vived him. 

Mr. Shaw was a person who was very sturdy, not only in his 
opinions, but in the whole grain and texture of his character. 
He also utterly ignored all the arts of popularity. Yet he was 
always popular in college ; and in later years, it is not known 
that these characteristics made him any enemies. While in 
Cambridge, though genial and hospitable, he was not often 
drawn away by social tastes from his home. By all these, and 
by his near relatives and chosen friends, he was much valued 
and deeply lamented. 

1833. — Charles Jackson, son of Charles and Fanny 
(Cabot) Jackson, was born in Boston, 4 March, 1815. 

His father, a distinguished jurist, was on the bench of the 
Supreme Court of Massachusetts from 1813 to 1823 ; and during 
a long life commanded the respect and reverence of the entire 
community. 

He was fitted for college chiefly at the schools of Mr. Daniel 
Greenleaf Ingraham and Mr. William Wells. Somewhat retired 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEOE. 79 

from his fellows, he devoured books, constructed curious ma- 
chines, discussed grave questions, and in various ways showed 
the remarkable acuteness and versatility which distinguished his 
later life. 

Entering college at the beginning of the sophomore year, at 
Commencement, 1830, he was soon recognized as the genius of 
the class. 

He disregarded college rank, satisfied in this respect with 
being admitted, among the second "eight," to the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society. His time, as an undergraduate, was devoted 
to desultory reading, principally in English belles-lettres, and 
to the fascinations of chemistry. 

After graduating, he began the study of the law with his 
father, and continued it in the office of Hon. Charles G. Loring. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1836. The years 1837 
and 1838 he spent in Europe. On returning, he attended to 
civil engineering, which he prosecuted on the western and east- 
ern railroads in Massachusetts during the years 1839 and 1840. 
His natural taste and talents, largely mechanical, well fitted him 
for the last-named profession ; and his remarkable quickness of 
mind, and immense fund of miscellaneous knowledge, would 
have rendered him eminent in the former. But after 1840 he 
abandoned both, and turned his attention to iron-making, styling 
himself, thenceforward, an "iron-master." His great capacity 
made work so easy, that he found ample leisure for various 
studies, which almost to the last had an ever-increasing attrac- 
tion ; and for that simple and hearty hospitality which, for a 
quarter of a century, delighted its favored recipients, whether 
they were the distinguished of this or other lands, or simply old 
friends without learning or talents. 

He married, 16 February, 1842, his cousin, Susan C, 
youngest daughter of the late Dr. James Jackson, who sur- 
vives him. 

He died at Boston, 30 July, 1871, after a lingering and pain- 
ful illness of many months. 

He left two sons and one daughter. His eldest child married 



80 NECROLOGY OF ALU3IXI [1869-72. 

the Rev. George McKean Folsom, and died a short time before 
bim, leaving one daughter. 

A biographical notice of him appeared in the columns of the 
"Boston Daily Advertiser," which faithfully delineates the prom- 
inent traits in his mind and character, thous^h hardly doino^ ius- 
tice to the constancy of his attachments and benevolence of 
his life. 

1833. — Thomas Boltox was born at Scipio, X.Y., 29 
October, 1809. He was prepared for college at the school on 
Temple Hill, Geneseo, X.Y., kept by Seth Sweetser, C. C. 
Felton, and H. R. Cleveland. He entered college, with his 
friend Kelly, after the winter vacation, in February, 1830. He 
had a respectable rank as a scholar, and took a lively interest 
and prominent part in all that concerned the class. After grad- 
uation, he read law a while in the office of John C. Spencer, 
Esq., Canandaigua, X.Y. He was admitted to the bar at 
Cleveland, Ohio, in September, 1835. After a business con- 
nection of about a year with James L. Conger, Esc[., he sent 
for his classmate and friend, Moses Kelly, and the two formed 
a partnership in the autumn of 1836, which lasted till 1856, 
when Mr. Bolton was elected one of the judges of the Court of 
Common Pleas. This office he held for ten years. After his 
retirement from the bench in 1866, he devoted himself to the 
care of a large property. He died suddenly, 1 February, 1871, 
of neuraWia of the heart. Judo'e Bolton was twice married. 
His first wife, whom he married 7 September, 1837, was Eliza- 
beth L. Cone, who died ^'^ January, 1846. By her he had 
five children : Festus Cone, born 7 June, 1838, died 8 Feb- 
ruary, 1839 : Thomas Kelly, born 1h March, 1810 (H.C. 
1861) ; Festus Cone, born 12 January, 181:1: ; James Henry, 
born 20 January, 1816, graduated at Western Reserve, 1866, 
LL.B. at Harvard, 1869. He married, 1 December, 1846, 
Emmeline Russell, by whom he had two children : George Rus- 
sell, born 31 January, 1851, died- 9 September, 1859 ; Charles 
Chester, born 23 March, 1855. 

Judge Bolton was a man of great energy and force of char- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. * 81 

acter, peremptory and decisive both at the bar and on the bench, 
social and companionable with his friends, by whom he was 
much beloved, but with a certain sternness of manner in the 
common intercourse of life, which prevented him from being 
generally popular. The resolutions adopted by the Cleveland 
bar after his death, and the speeches made on the occasion, 
showed the strong sense which was felt of his ability and 
worth. 

1833. — Moses Kelly, son of Daniel and Mary (Roupe) 
Kelly, was born at Groveland, New York, 21 January, 1809. 
He was prepared for college at the school at Temple Hill, 
Geneseo. Immediately after graduating, he began the study 
of law in the office of Orlando Hastings, Esq , of Rochester, 
N.Y., and with him completed his three years' course. In 
1836 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and formed a partnership 
with his friend, classmate, and chum, Thomas Bolton, which 
continued twenty years. In 1839, Mr. Kelly was chosen city 
attorney. In 1844 and 1845 he was a member of the state 
senate. In September, 1866, Pres. Johnson nominated him 
United-States attorney for the northern district of Ohio. This 
office he held till the March following, when the senate refused 
to confirm the appointment. 

He died, 15 August, 1870, of pulmonary consumption, after 
an illness of some months. He was an excellent lawyer, and 
in equity law stood pre-eminent. After his death, resolutions 
were passed by the members of the bar of Cuyahoga County, 
expressing In the strongest terms their sense of his worth as a 
lawyer and a man. Mr. Kelly married, in 1839, Jane, daughter 
of Gen. Howe, of New Haven, Conn., by whom he had six 
children, as follows : Frank Howe, born 21 May, 1840 ; Jane 
EHza, born 28 January, 1842 ; George D., born November, 
1844; Margaret S., born 16 elune, 1846; Mary, born July, 
1848, died July, 1863 ; Clara, born June, 1850. 

The close connection and long Intimacy between the subject 
of this notice and the last preceding one, should not be passed 
by in a sketch of their lives. They were both natives of Western 
New York, and were born in the same year, 1809. They were 

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82 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

fitted for college in the same school. They were chums and 
inseparable companions in college ; and the names of " Bolton 
and Kelly" were always together on the lips of their classmates. 
Parted only during their years of professional preparation, they 
came together again, three years after graduating, to form a 
partnership, which continued for twenty years, and resumed a 
friendship which lasted until death, on which event they were 
separated by a space of less than six months. For many years 
they lived next to each other on Euclid Avenue, in houses 
exactly alike. Their life-long intimacy was the more remark- 
able, because of the wide difference in the characters of the two. 
Their tastes and habits of mind were not only unlike, but dia- 
metrically opposite. Mr. Kelly was a churchman and a con- 
servative ; Judge Bolton a radical in church and state. The 
former had much benevolence, the latter much thriftiness. Mr. 
Kelly had trained powers of thought and learning ; Judge 
Bolton, homely common sense and sagacity. Each was con- 
sistent and faithful to his ideal. 

1834. — Dr. Charles Thacher, and his brother, Rev. Wil- 
liam Vincent Thacher, were born in Boston, 15 April, 1815. 
They were the sons of Mr. Charles Thacher, an honored and 
successful merchant of Boston, and his wife, whose maiden 
name was Caroline Hutchings, born in Gloucester, Mass. 
Charles and William received their preparatory education at 
the Latin School, while Mr. Benjamin Gould was head master. 
They entered Harvard College at the age of fifteen, a.d. 1830. 
They both received honorable parts at the Exhibition of May, 
1833. Parts were also given to both at the Commencement, 
when they graduated. Owing to a great collegiate disturbance, 
and acting from a point of honor, Charles resigned his part and 
degree, 27 August, 1834. Some years after, he applied for 
and received the latter. He then studied medicine, and re- 
ceived his diploma. After visiting the most famous resorts of 
our own country, he sailed for Havre, 10 November, 1837, 
and prosecuted his studies in Paris, until the July of 1839. 
He travelled through France, a part of Germany, Switzer- 
land, and Italy, and returned to Paris in November. Here 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 83 

he received the sad intelligence of the death of his beloved 
brother William. His mother and sister joined him in Paris, 
and travelled with him in Europe, until October, 1840, when 
he returned home. 

After some years he gave up the practice of medicine, the 
profession of which had never been his unbiassed choice. He 
became partner in a wholesale periodical business, and event- 
ually bought the whole of it. A year before his death this 
business was merged in the great corporation of the American 
News Company, whereof he retained his proportionate shares. 
He belonged to the famous " Cincinnati " Society, also to the 
Masonic Society. 

He died at the age of fifty- three years, on 23 March, 1869, 
in Boston, at the residence in Chestnut Street, which he had 
occupied, at few intervals, for fifty years. The disease was said 
to be an enlargement of the liver. He bore the wasting pain 
of his two years' illness with marvellous patience. His last 
words were, " I am ready." He never married. He was a 
devoted and beloved son and brother, and a true and generous 
friend. 

1835. — Ward Nicholas Boylston^ was the son of John 
Lane and Sarah (Brooks) Boylston, of Princeton, Mass., and 
grandson of Ward Nicholas Boylston (born Ward Hallowell), 
the distino^uished benefactor of Harvard Colleo^e. He was born 
at Princeton, 10 August, 1815. He was early sent to school 
at Lancaster, afterward at Stow, and was fitted for college at 
Leicester Academy (1828-31), under the tuition of Mr. 
Richardson. 

Directly after leaving college, he became a student of medicine 
with the late Dr. George C. Shattuck, of Boston. He attended 
medical lectures at Bowdoin College, and in the medical depart- 
ment of Harvard University, in which he took the degree of 
doctor of medicine in 1839. He practised medicine in Boston 
about five years. A part of this time he was one of the visit- 
ing physicians of the Boston Dispensary. 

In 1844, having, by the death of his grandmother, come into 
possession of his grandfather's large estate at Princeton, he 



84 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1839-72. 

withdrew from medical practice and went there to live. He 
resided in Princeton the rest of his life, enjoying and improving 
the beautiful landed property he had inherited. He was a very 
public-spirited and useful citizen of that town, — liberal in en- 
terprises for the good of the town, and unostentatiously, but con- 
stantly benevolent to those who needed aid. He never accepted 
any public office. He frequently mingled in society in the cities 
of Boston and Worcester, and took extensive journeys in the 
United States and British American provinces, but never 
crossed the Atlantic. He was never married. 

In 1866 he was attacked with the first symptoms of chronic 
disease, and after a sickness attended by much suffering, died 
at his home in Princeton, 10 February, 1870, aged fifty-four 
years and six months. 

1835. — Frederick Augustus Eustis, born at Newport, 
R.I., 12 June, 1816; died in Beaufort, S.C, 19 June, 1871, 
aged fifty-five. The deceased was son of Abram Eustis 
(H.C. 1804) and Rebecca Sprague, daughter of Dr. John 
Sprague, of Dedham, Mass.* 

Domiciled in early life at the successive military stations of 
his father as an officer in the regular United-States army, first 
at Newport, R.I., then at St. Augustine, Fla., then at Boston, 
Eustis was sent, at the age of eleven or twelve years, to 
Stow and Lancaster (Mass.) academies to fit for college, from 
which latter institution he entered the university in 1831, and 
continued with his class throuo^hout the full colleo^e course. At 
school there could be no more exemplary scholar. In college he 

* All the graduates of the name of Eustis, on the college catalogue, are of 
the same family. Among them are William Eustis ( United-States secretary 
of war, governor of Massachusetts, &c., &c., H.C. 1772), great-uncle of Frederick ; 
Abraham Eustis, his father (who early entered the regular army of the United 
States, and died in the service as brigadier-general in 1843, having especially 
distinguished himself in the Florida war, in which he had the chief command) ; 
George Eustis, his father's cousin (late chief-justice of Louisiana, died 1858, 
H.C. 1815) ; and his two younger brothers, John Fenwick Eustis (H.C. 1837, 
died 1844) and Henry L. Eustis (H.C. 1838, a graduate also of West Point, ex- 
major-general United-States army, and acting professor of engineering in the 
scientific department, H.C), both of whom took very high rank in their respec- 
tive classes. 



1869-72.] OF HARVAED COLLEGE. 85 

was noted for the same propriety of deportment and faithful 
diligence in study, and early obtained a high rank as a student, 
which he maintained till graduating. Among his college 
honors were a Latin oration at the second (senior) exhibition, 
and a " literary discussion " at Commencement. He was elected 
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and also belonged to 
the undergraduate societies of the "Institute of 1770/' and the 
"Hasty-Pudding Club." 

After graduating, Mr. Eustis continued a year at the univer- 
sity as a resident graduate and proctor, and then completed the 
regular theological course of study for the ministry in the 
Divinity School. Quitting the university, he preached for some 
years in a private or qicasi-famiiy church in Philadelphia, Penn. 
(having charge at the same time of a private school), and 
subsequently filled the pulpit, temporarily, of several Unitarian 
churches in Boston and vicinity, with great acceptance to his 
hearers. He was just upon the point of accepting a permanent 
call at Nashua, N.H., when the death of his father devolved 
such family cares upon him that, coupled with his dislike of 
professional routine, he quitted the ministry to become a teacher 
and practical farmer. Having married in 1841, he settled him- 
self at Milton, Mass., where he continued to reside till his 
decease, varying his residence only by going to the sea-islands 
of South Carolina for several winters to take charge of some 
cotton plantations belonging to his step-mother, the second wife 
of Gen. Eustis, and in which, at her decease, he and his 
brothers acquired a contingent pecuniary interest by her testa- 
mentary bequest. In the care and management of these estates, 
— which he would gladly have surrendered but for his interest in 
the welfare of the dependent negro occupants, who, after their 
emancipation by the war, became rather a burden and objects 
of charity, than the source of any income to the estate, — he 
contracted a malarious fever, of which he died. 

The deceased, at the age of twenty-five, married Mary, the 
only daughter of the late Rev. Wm. E. Channing (II. C. 
1798) and Ruth Gibbs Channing, by whom he leaves four sur- 
viving children, — a son and three daughters, — of whom ^Yi\- 



Ob NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

liam, the son, a graduate of the class of 1871, is at present a 
member of the Scientific School of the university. 

AVe extract from an obituary notice by the friend and class- 
mate whose initials it bears, and which appeared in the "Boston 
Daily Advertiser" of 27 June, 1871, the following sketch of 
Mr. Eustis's characteristic traits and career, abridged and slightly 
revised by its author : — 

"Few persons to whom Mr. Frederick A. Eustis was known can 
have read the recent newspaper announcement of his death at Beau- 
fort., S.C. (the 19th instant), without a poignant throb of pain and 
regret. Xot only has a most estimable citizen, a beloved head of a 
family, and a respected member of society passed away, but to every 
one of his acquaintances some of the joy and gladness of life has been 
diminished in the sudden tidings of his decease. Without having made 
a name for himself in the world by proofs of extraordinary intellectual 
or practical ability, he yet has not gone out of it without impressing the 
memory of his character and life upon every one who ever came near 
enough to him to understand and appreciate him. Born a gentleman, 
gifted with some of the most attractive attributes of mind and body, — 
wit, grace, and personal gentility, — educated with the conscientiousness 
of a Christian scholar, and disciplined with the self-denial of a soldier, 
he early learnt the lesson of discerning and choosing the truly good and 
the usefully beautiful. Talent, tact, social distinction and favor, intel- 
lectual graces and accomplishments, were all subordinated in his life and 
conversation to the serious and higher uses of existence. From the 
most benighted colored laborer of the Southern plantation, up to the 
most cultivated and saintly of the Christian ministry, — such, for instance, 
as his celebrated father-in-law. Dr. William E. Channing, by whom he 
was held in the highest appreciation and regard, — he educated himself 
to sympathize -with every thing human, and to stand by every thing 
humanly real. Nothing in the nature of a sham could pass the ordeal 
of his keen and scrutinizing realism. So it was, that, bred to the min- 
istry, for which he had rare adaptation through his spiritual, aesthetic, 
and social endowments, he turned away to something which wore less 
the fetters of formalism, and in which he could find scope for the devel- 
opment of his purposes and ideas in his own downright way. Teacher, 
gardener, cotton-planter, he tried to work out as he best might some of 
the great problems of education, social economy, and human advance- 
ment. Doubtless feeble health and limited pecuniary resources had 



1869-72.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 87 

much to do with controlling the sphere of his employment. Yet under- 
neath an apparently unthriving and undistinguished career there always 
ran an earnest and persistent effort after the true and progressive, and 
an aiming at the higher ideal, which made his life a study worth the 
attention and imitation of the manliest and most cultured. And then 
with this grim earnestness there were combined so much courtesy and 
good-will, so much force and intellectual brightness, so much cheery 
readiness for duty, that one could be willing to work in his company in 
the most disheartening callings. The wit and hel esprit of his circle, the 
favorite with high and low among all who touched upon his sphere, he 
was ready at any time to quit the society of the cultivated and refined 
for the companionship of the uncultured, the debased, and degraded, in 
order to minister to his. less favored and erring fellow-creatures of his 
own helping gifts and graces. The slave, the convict, and the outcast 
were especial objects of his kind consideration and succor. In his inter- 
course with these forlorn and repulsive specimens of our common na- 
ture, his original and acquired graces only shone the more conspicuous 
by contrast with the objects on which they were bestowed. Yet 
one can never help regretting that such a life should have been 
sacrificed to the supposed necessity of providing for the organiza- 
tion and administration of the field-labor of a large number of negro 
workmen, left in a state of destitution and distress by the casual 
interruption of plantation economy, and for whose care and guardian- 
ship the pecuniary bequest of his step-mother seemed to make him, in 
his own estimation, responsible. The plantation legacy became thus 
rather an enslavement of its owner to the laborers, than a gift of the 
slaves' labor and ownership to their master. It was in this self- 
enforced servitude of practical emancipation and philanthropy that Mr. 
Eustis contracted the malarious fever of which he died, at a distance 
from his home and family and friends, so beloved and so loving. 

" To his college classmates, if none others, this brief notice of Mr. 
Eustis's life and death will touch a chord of sympathetic regard and 
regret. Who can think of him as the wit, the merry-maker, the " Har- 
vard-Washington " orderly and driller, the foot-ball player of the Delta, 
the elegant scholar, the finished gentleman of his class, and not thank 
Heaven for his association and the joy of having known him?" 

1836. — James Ttiaciier Hodge was born in Ncwbnryport, 
Mass., 12 March, 1816. He was the son of Michael Hodge, 
of Nevvburyport, of the class of 17 01), a lawyer by profession, 



88 NECROLOGY OF ALUXXI [1869-72. 

who died 6 July, 181*^. and Betsey Hay ward Elliott, widow of 
Daniel R. Elliott, of Savannah, Ga., and daughter of James 
and Susannah Thacher, of Plymouth, Mass., who died in Plym- 
outh, 27 February, 1871. A short time before her husband's 
death, Mrs. Hodge moved to Plymouth, where James remained 
for a time under the instruction of Francis O. Dorr (H.C. 1825) 
and Josiah Moore (H.C. 182(3). In 1827 he was placed 
under the care of Eev. Daniel Kimball (H.C. 1800), of 
Xeedham, with whom he remained until 1831, when he entered 
the academy at Xorthfield, under the management of Cyrus 
Hosmer, principal, and Edgar Buckingham (H.C. 1831), 
assistant. He was fitted for college under the immediate in- 
struction of Mr. Buckingham, and entered Harvard in 1832. 
He had early shown a fondness for the study of mineralogy, 
and during his freshman year, having been refused permission 
to attend a course of lectures on that branch of science, which 
Dr. Charles T. Jackson was delivering before the advanced 
classes, accepted the invitation of Dr. Jackson to place himself 
under his private instruction during such hours as could be spared 
from his college studies. At the end of his freshman year he 
was absent from coUeo-e several months, seekino- in travel at the 
South the restoration of impaired health, but returned at the 
beginning of his sophomore year, and ran his collegiate career 
with good standing in his class, distinguishing himself, however, 
more in the acquisition of scientific knowledge, than in the pre- 
scribed field of academic study. 

In Jtme, 1836, he left college to take the position of assistant 
under Dr. Jackson in the geological survey of the public lands 
of Massachusetts in Maine, but received his degree in course 
with his class in the August following. He remained with Dr. 
Jackson until June, l''^38 ; and in the second year of his labors 
in the field was intrusted with a party, under his exclusive com- 
mand, in the work of tracing the rock formation, through Maine 
to the Canada line. 

At the close of his work in Maine he at once joined Prof. 
Henrv D. Eoa'ers, under whom he acted as sub-assistant in 



1869-72.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 89 

the geological survey of Pennsylvania. His duties were to 
explore and define the different rock formations within the 
limits of the district assigned to him, and in this work he laid 
the foundation of that extensive and thorough knowledge of the 
lower bituminous coal-measures which he afterwards acquired. 
He is represented by those who operated with him as having 
brought to his arduous labors, performed in an almost unbroken 
forest, a cool, clear head, and a conscientious devotion ; and as 
the result of his explorations he gave to the world the first clear 
notion of the number and size of the coal areas of Northern 
Pennsylvania. 

In 1841 Mr. Hodge made an extended tour through Missouri, 
Illinois, and Wisconsin, engaged in the examination of lead and 
copper mines, and in the autumn of 1842 went to Cuba, where 
he spent a year, principally m the copper regions in the neighbor- 
hood of Neuvitas. From 1843 to 1846 he was employed by 
corporations and capitalists in examining the mineral resources 
of various parts of the country, and in the latter year visited 
Lake Superior for the purpose of exploring the copper regions 
in that vicinity. During several subsequent years he was occu- 
pied in his professional pursuits in different parts of the United 
States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, and in 1851 visited England 
for the purpose of examining the mines of Cornwall. In 1853 
and 1854 he was employed at Bristol, R.I., in connection with 
the coal mines in that region, and again in the summer of 1854 
and 1856 was engaged in mining operations at Lake Superior. 

In 1857 he connected himself with the "American Cyclopaedia," 
to which he assiduously devoted himself until its completion in 
1863, embodying in his contributions, more than twelve hundred 
in number, the results of his researches and learning. Among 
the most important articles for which that work was indebted 
to his pen, were those on anthracite coal, copper, electricity, 
fur, geology, glaciers, glass, iron, printing, ships, steel, and 
Lake Superior. He had also previously been connected with 
the editorial department of the " New York Mining Journal," 
and had contributed many valuable articles to the " Eighty Years' 
Progress." 

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90 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

In 1863 he again visited the mines of Nova Scotia ; in 1864 
was connected for a time with the Beekman iron mines on the 
Hudson ; and in 1865 went to Montana, where he purchased and 
opened gold mines in behalf of capitalists in New York. In 
1868 he was engaged in scientific explorations in California and 
Arizona, in 1869 was employed in the survey of the Cumber- 
land coal region, and in 1870 made an examination of the cop- 
per mines of North Carolina. In 1871 he spent the summer in 
labors connected with the geological survey of the state of Ohio, 
and early in the autumn left Cleveland for Lake Superior, on a 
tour for health and pleasure. He took a steamer at Marquette, 
on the southern shore of Lake Superior, on Thursday, 12 Octo- 
ber, on his way home ; but, encountering a severe gale, the 
steamer foundered on Lake Huron on Sunday, the loth, and he, 
with all, except seventeen of the crew and two of the passen- 
gers, was lost. 

He was married in Plymouth, 3 February, 1846, to Mary 
Spooner Russell, daughter of John and Deborah Russell, of 
Plymouth, and had four children, all of whom are now living, — 
Elizabeth Thacher, born 9 November, 1846 ; John Russell, 
born 26 November, 1847 ; James Michael, born 3 April, 1850 ; 
and Mary, born 17 December, 1854. 

Mr. Hodge was a member of the New- York Lyceum of 
Natural History, the Kirkland Academy of Sciences of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, and of the Cincinnati Society. At the time of his 
death his professional enthusiasm and zeal had lost none of their 
freshness : and there is little doubt that, had his life been spared, 
he would have crowned a career already distinguished by brilliant 
achievements in the fields of science. 

1837. — Horace Morisox, the second son of Nathaniel and 
Mary Ann (Hopkins) Morison, and the third of seven chil- 
dren, was born in Peterboro', N.H., 13 September, 1810. His 
father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been respectable 
farmers, and among the prominent citizens of the town. When 
he was nine years old his father died, and the family were left 
dependent for their support mainly on the great energy and 
capacity of their mother. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 91 

Till he was nearly twenty-one years of age, Horace was em- 
ployed, first on a iixrra and then in a cabinet-maker's shop, with 
only such means of education as were furnished by the common 
schools of the town, and a few weeks of instruction in what is 
now the Appleton Academy, in New Ipswich. In September, 
1831, he became a member of Phillips Exeter Academy, where 
he remained till 1834, when he was admitted as a sophomore 
in Harvard University. While in college he was saved from 
drowning by Henry L. Eustis, now professor in the Scientific 
School, who rescued him from the Charles River after he had 
become wholly unconscious. He received a first Bowdoin prize 
for a dissertation in his junior year, and being numbered among 
the most able rather than the most accomplished scholars of his 
class, he was graduated sixth or eighth in rank. 

Immediately on leaving college he went to Baltimore as 
assistant teacher to Mr. John Prentiss, who was then at the 
head of the academical department of the Maryland University, 
and who, when he retired from that place in 1841, was suc- 
ceeded in the office by Mr. Morison. In 1854 Mr. Morison, 
with a constitution seriously impaired, went back to Peterboro', 
to the farm which he had bought the year before, and which 
had been occupied by his father and grandfather. At the end of 
two years he had so far recovered his health that he returned to 
Baltimore, and opened a school for young ladies. With one 
intermission of about a year, he continued in this occupation 
till February, 1869, when he withdrew finally from Baltimore, 
and, with broken health, spent the summers on his farm in 
Peterboro', and the winters in Portsmouth, N.H., till 5 August, 
1870, when he died of dysentery, thus closing a faithful, labori- 
ous, and useful life. His quaUties of mind and character were 
solid rather than brilliant. He was a man of warm affections, 
great sweetness of disposition, and of childlike purity and 
truthfulness. 

He was married in July, 1841, to Mary Elizabeth Lord, 
daughter of Samuel Lord, of Portsmoutli, N.IL, who is still 
living, with their four children; viz., Elizabeth Whitridge, 
born 8 December, 1842; Mary Ann, born October 24, 1844; 



92 NECROLOGY OF ALrMNI [1869-72. 

Caroline Augusta, born 20 September. 1847 ; and Samuel 
Lord, born 2^ October. 1851. He published in Philadelphia 
anonymously one small volume, called "Pebbles on the ■ Sea- 
shore." It was intended for children, and had a good sale, but 
has long been out of print. 

l'S38. — Xatha>' Hale, son of Xathan and Sarah Preston 
(Everett') Hale, was bom in Boston. 18 Xovember, 1818, and 
died in Boston. 9 January, 1871. iEIis disease was a concealed 
cancerous tumor. 

He was fitted for coUeofe at the Boston Latin School : but, 
after he had begun his course in that school, he left it for two 
years, and spent those years in the Ena'lish High School. In 
this school he acquired his early training for mathematics, in 
which line of research he was always interested, and made 
curious and accurate study. In college he was one of the 
editors of " Harvardiana." then in its fourth and last year. The 
other editors were Eufus King. Charles TToodman Scates, James 
Eussell Lowell, and George AVarren Lippitt. all of whom sur- 
vi^-e him. It may interest old graduates to say at random that 
'■ Ccecinna Poetus " and the " Camera Obscura " are two of his 
many papers there. The last has an interest in the history of 
science as containing a recognition, as early as February, 1S38, 
of the value of Morse's telegraphic alphabet. 

As soon as he left college he accepted an appointment as 
assistant topographical engineer on the state map of Massachu- 
setts. The topography on the western counties of that map is 
from his own hand, drawn from surveys made in the field in 
1838, 1839. and 1840. He was not all the time occupied in this 
service. He pursued his law studies partly at the Law School, 
and partly with Charles Pelham Curtis iH.C. 1-^11). He took 
the degree of LL.B. in 184l'. He opened an ofiice for the 
practice of the law. but his attention was at the same time 
drawn to journalism. i\lr. T. H. Carter, of Boston, established 
in 1841 the "Boston ^Miscellany," and Mr. Hale was its first 
editor for one year. He had very great success in this duty, and 
it gave, perhaps, the literary bent to his after life. From 1842, 
for manv vears he was co-editor with his father, Xathan Hale 



1869-72.] OF HARYARD COLLEGE. 93 

(Williams C. 1804 ; H.C. LL.D. 1853), of the " Boston Daily 
Advertiser," and frequently had sole charge of that journal in 
his father's long absences from Boston. 

It was, perhaps, in the various work of a political editor that 
he made the larger number of his friends. But his health, never 
vigorous, was not sufficient for its daily and nightly requisitions ; 
and after 1855 his work in journalism was only that of a fre- 
quent contributor, always in demand for different journals. His 
pasvsion for study continued till the last days of his life ; and the 
range of his information, as to books and history, seemed to his 
friends unlimited. He had made special study of the literature 
of England, but he never forgot his loyalty to the ancient clas- 
sics. The precision of his mind and his fondness for the pure 
mathematics bore results in the accuracy of his literary work, 
on subjects wholly disconnected with them. 

To fill a temporary vacancy in the faculty of Union College, 
Schenectady, caused by Pres. Hickock's resignation, he ac- 
cepted a professorship in that institution in 1868. On the 
appointment of Dr. Alden to the presidency, he returned to 
Boston. He engaged at once in the superintendence of " Old 
and New," and continued the associate editor of that journal till 
he died. 

" This man had the gift of making friends." This state- 
ment, made at his funeral, is precisely true. Brilliant in mental 
accomplishment as he was, yet he is remembered as the most 
aflfectionate, loyal, and self-sacrificing of friends by those who 
knew him. And, though his permanent memorials in literature 
are few, he will be long remembered by those who studied with 
him, worked with him, or talked with him. 

He left, nearly ready for press, a " General Survey of the 
History and Progress of English Literature, from the Earliest 
Days." Mr. Hale was never married. 

1840. — George Francis Ciiever, son of James W. and 
Lydia (Dean) Chever, was born in Salem, Mass., 30 Novem- 
ber, 1819. He pursued his studies, preparatory to admission 
to Harvard College, in 1836, at the Salem Latin School, the 
latter part of the time under the charge of Oliver Carlton 
(Dart. C. 1824). 



94 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

After graduation he entered upon the study of the law, and 
was for some time in the Law School at Cambridge, and was in 
due time admitted to the Essex bar, in Salem. He removed 
soon after to Mississippi, with the design of practising his pro- 
fession in the city of Natchez ; but the climate proved unfavor- 
able to his health, and after remaining two years, during which 
time he experienced a severe sickness, he returned to Salem 
with impaired health and constitution, which was never strong, 
materially shattered. He then spent several months at the 
Azores, or AYestern Islands, and on his return opened a law 
office in Salem, and entered the pursuit of his chosen profession. 
He became interested in political matters, and was an active 
supporter of the whig party. His attention was soon drawn 
to the antislavery question, then becoming prominent in national 
politics, and, upon the formation of the free-soil party, es- 
poused that cause with all the ardor of his earnest and sincere 
nature. He gave attention, also, to matters of public educa- 
tion, and, being chosen a member of the school committee, 
devoted much time and labor to the interests of the public 
schools. His excellent talents and superior acquirements ren- 
dered him very useful in these labors, and by voice and pen, in 
address and reports, he served the public with enthusiasm and 
success. To promote the prospects of the antislavery party in 
this vicinity, he published " The Free World," a political Aveekly, 
during the campaign of 1848 ; but the excitements and irrita- 
tions of political life were too much for his temperament, 
unusually sensitive and impressible, and after two or three 
years of service, during which he was a frequent contributor to 
the press, he withdrew from this exciting field of labor. From 
this time forth he gave his attention chiefly to literary pursuits, 
and wrote freely upon his chosen topics, both in prose and verse. 
As an essayist, he wrote with facility and grace, and his poetical 
compositions were marked by delicacy of fancy and an easy 
rhythmic flow. But, during these years, he was frequently pros- 
trated by turns of illness and of mental depression. A collec- 
tion of poems, which he had partially prepared for publication, 
was left unfinished when mental exertion became no longer pos- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 95 

sible. As a member of the Essex Institute, he gave consider- 
able attention to subjects of local history, and prepared a series 
of papers upon Philip English and his times, which indicated 
habits of careful research and genuine antiquarian enthusiasm, 
which is one of the most valuable and interesting documents 
issued by that excellent society. 

Mr. Chever was a voluminous writer, but many of the fruits 
of his facile pen never saw the light, but were reserved for pub- 
lication when returning health and renewed vivacity should 
encourage their author. But this time never came. The 
malady, which had long threatened him, advanced apace, and 
the prostration of mind and body compelled him to seek quiet 
and repose. He lingered for a few years in feebleness and de- 
spondency, and died in Pepperell, Mass., 5 April, 1871, un- 
married. 

1841. — Seth Edward Sprague died of consumption, at 
his residence in Ashburton Place, Boston, 22 June, 1869, aged 
48 years. Born at Hallo well, Me., 12 April, 1821, he was the 
second son of the Hon. Peleg and Sarah (Deming) Sprague. 
He was a descendant of William Sprague, who emigrated from 
England in 1629, and settled in Hingham in 1634, and of his 
oldest son Samuel, of Marshfield, who was a representative for 
four years, register of deeds, and the last secretary of the Old 
Colony. His grandfather, Seth Sprague, was a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature, in the house and senate, for about 
thirty years. 

His father, born in Duxbury, graduated at Harvard College 
in 1812, and, after studying law, went to Hallo well. Me., 
where he successfully practised his profession. A member of the 
State legislature in 1821-22, he was twice elected to the National 
House of Representatives in 1824-26, and to the Senate of the 
United States in 1829. He afterwards moved to Boston, where 
he continued the practice of the law. Appointed judge of the 
United States District Court for Massachusetts in 1841, he 
filled the office with signal ability, until his resignation in 1865. 
His speeches and addresses, together with his judicial decisions, 
have been published in three volumes. He received the degree 



96 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

of LL.D. from his Alma Mater in 1847. Judge and Mrs. 
Sprague still reside in Boston (1872). 

Setli Edward was educated for Cambridge, partly at Hallo- 
well, and later at the school of Stephen Minot Weld (H.C. 
1826), at Jamaica Plain. He entered the freshman class in 
1837, and graduated in 1811, taking the degree of LL.B., 
after a course in the Law School. He then entered the office of 
Wm. Gray, Esq., and was shortly after admitted to the bar. 
In 1842 he was appointed clerk of the United-States District 
Court, which position he held until a few months before his 
death, when failing health obliged him to resign. He was a 
great sufferer from asthma, and, in 1852, made a trip to Cali- 
fornia, by which he was much benefited. His experiences in the 
then unsettled state of society on the Pacific coast were most 
interesting, and were the subject of many a humorous and 
graphic narration. He twice visited Europe. His occasional 
contributions to the press were of an ephemeral nature, but 
ahvays full of wit and point. 

His death was brought to the notice of the court by M. F. 
Dickinson, Jr., Esq., the assistant district attorney, 25 June, 
1869, when he spoke of his impressive manner, of his courtesy, 
and his patience and forbearance in office. Pichard H. Dana, 
Jr., Esq., spoke of his quick wit and humor, his faculty of con- 
cise and felicitous expression, and bore testimony to the effi- 
ciency of his administration. He stated that, for regularity, 
openness, and moderation, no office of the kind in the country 
had surpassed that of the late clerk. C. L. Woodbury, Esq., 
then referred to Mr. Sprague's taste for reading and cultivation. 
" His wit was keen and sparkling, while his range of acquire- 
ment was far greater and more considerable than any but his 
personal friends may have supposed." 

Judge Lowell, in reply, alluded to his pleasant personal and 
official relations with Mr. Sprague, to his thorough knowledge 
of his duties, and the facilities which his experience, willingly 
imparted, had given to practitioners. He especially referred to 
the courage, gentleness, and thought for others with which he 
looked death in the face, saving, in conclusion: " The tribute 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. , 97 

of this informal gathering, which results from a suggestion bj 
me, is fitting and appropriate. It is proper that this day should 
be devoted to the remembrance of the faithful officer, and stead- 
fast friend, whom we shall meet no more in this place, which 
was the scene of his labors." 

The court was then adjourned to attend the funeral. 

Indolent as to physical exertion, intellectually, Mr. Sprague 
was not only always clever, but at times brilliant. Too favor- 
able circumstances, the stimulus wanting for direct exertion in 
his profession, and his settling down to a routine, gave to his 
generation a result less marked than his inherited abilities and 
personal culture warranted. 

He married, 11 September, 1848, Harriet Bordman, daughter 
of William and Susan Ruggles (Bordman) Lawrence. She 
was born in Boston, 8 elanuary, 1826. Their children : — 
1. Wm. Lawrence, born 20 July, 1849 (H.C. 1871); in Law 
School. 2. Fanny Bordman, born 29 September, 1851, died 
16 July, 1856. 3. Charles Franklin, born 10 June, 1857. 
4. Richard, born 16 June, 1859. 5. Elizabeth Lejee, born 
25 April, 1863, died 7 September, 1864. 

1843. — Edward Morrell was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
31 October, 1824. He was the eldest son of Dr. Robert Mor- 
rell, — who served with the United-States forces under Gen. 
Jackson in Louisiana, during the war of 1812, — and of 
Laurette (Toussard) Morrell, daughter of Gen. Toussard, an 
artillery officer of Napoleon's army, who afterwards emigrated 
to America, and was employed upon our coast fortifications. 

The subject of this sketch resided chiefly on his father's plan- 
tation, " Recompenza," in San Marcos, Cuba, until 1835, and 
was during part of this time the pupil of Miss IVfary Peabody, 
now Mrs. Horace Mann. He was fitted for college by Mr. M. 
L. Hurlbut, and entered (without conditions) the sophomore 
class of Harvard College in 1840. He graduated with honors 
in 1843, and after a brief visit to his father's estates in Cuba, 
spent a year in the Harvard Law School, a year in the office of 
Hon. George T. Davis, of Greenfield, Mass., and a third year 
in that of Messrs. Sohier and Welch, in Boston. He was ad 

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9S NEC?. :_ T :? alumni [1869-72. 

mitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1846, and practised law in 
Boston till 1852, when he removed to Philadelphia to join his 
parents, who had just removed to that city from Cuba. For 
the remainder of his life he resided partly in Philadelphia and 
partly in Xew York, spending most of his summers in Xewport, 
R.T. In 1860 he married Ida, third daughter of Col. John 
Effire Powelj of Philadelphia, — an officer of the war of 1812, 
— f Julia (De Veaus) Powd. He died at Newport, 

o ."^r : - t'. 1871, leaving a widow and three children. He 
had iiic -. liier, Charles Henry Morrell (H.C. 1847), and one 
sister, wife of Don Pedro Iiambert Fernandez, of Cuba. 

18 i^. — Chap.ues ^ TTTTA^ r Dabxet, Jr., was bom at Fayal, 
Azore s . 10 August , 1823. He was a son of Charles William Dab- 
ney and Frances (Alsop) Pomeroy, both natives of the United 
States. Tije name of his mother's ^unily was one of reputation 
in Massachusetts formerly, but is since most ^miliar in Ohio, 
where it honors the shire town of Meigs County. His Other's 
lamily was :: French extraction, and the name was originally 
D Aabigne. All over the island of Fayal the Dabney family 
is spoken of as the family (afamilkd), such distinction has it 
acquired there. Since early in the present century, John Dab- 
ney came from the United S::.:rs . established himself in business, 
and held the office of Ueitt -"^: res consuL Charles William, 
the son of John, succeeded :; : r b isiness, and to the consul- 
ship, which he retained for ma_^ ' ' S^® ^^* ^ vaask of great 
energy and dignity of character, :: -r world-wide reputa- 

tion : so well beloved, and of such :i zuence in the island where 
he lived, as to be. it is said, essentially its king. 

The childhood :: ^ i-s TTiQiam, Jr., — with the exception 
of a visit to the United States when he was nine years old, — 
was passed on the island of Fayal, where he was educated en- 
tirely by ladi^ of the ikmily, till, in 1834, he was placed at 
!Mr. Stephen M. Weld's school, in Jamaica Plain, Mass. In 
the autumn of 1835, accompanied by Mr. Eben S. Brooks, who 
had just graduated at Harvard, he returned home, and con- 
tinued ^\e years under the tuition of that gentleman, the last 
year being passed in Europe. 



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He entered colleo^e in 1840. Throus^h the whole course he 
was earnest and conscientious in the discharge of every duty, 
and a complete gentleman in all his connections. A frank 
countenance, close-curling blond hair, a compact figure, and 
manly bearing, marked his appearance. He excelled in athletic 
exercises ; and, if occasion required, his muscular arm was ready, 
as was his spirit, in defence of right. He was a member of 
several colles^e clubs, amono^ them the Porcellian Club and the 
Pierian Sodality. His interest in music outlasted his college 
days ; and when the Harvard Musical Association was formed, 
he early became a member. Of college honors he took his full 
share : a detur in the sophomore year, a part at both the 
junior and senior exhibitions, and one at Commencement, rank- 
ing about sixteenth or seventeenth, when he graduated in 1844. 

The two graduates of the same name who had preceded him 
were both his kinsmen, — ^ Frederick, of the class of 1828, being 
his uncle, and Jonathan Peele Dabney, of the class of 1811, a 
cousin several times removed. Kev. John Bass, of the class of 
1737, was the father of his great-grandmother on the paternal 
side; and Samuel Wyllys, of the class of 1653 (a son of 
George Wyllys, of Hartford, Conn., governor of the colony in 
1642, on whose estate grew the historic "Charter Oak"), was 
his maternal ancestor. 

After graduating, Dabney returned to Fayal, and w^as occu- 
pied for a year and a half as tutor to liis youngest brother. 
Early in the year 1846 he came again to the United States, and 
entered the counting-house of Messrs. Alsop and Chauncey, in 
New York, and afterwards that of Howland and Aspinwall, of 
the same city, where he remained between one and two years. 
He then established himself in mercantile business in Boston, 
having formed a copartnership for that purpose with his cousin 
and classmate, Frederick Cunningham, which lasted till the 
death of the latter, when the business was carried on by Dab- 
ney alone. 18 July, 1849, he was married to Susan Heard 
Oliver, daughter of Francis Johannot Oliver and May Caroline 
Alsop, of Middletown, Conn., and went to live at Jam;iica 
Plain, where his children were born : May Oliver Alsop, 24 



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May, 1^.')0 ; Frances Aiiueo, 7 ScpttMiilx-r, l.S')4 (who died in 
int'anoy) ; and Susan Heard Oliver, 11 elune, 1^57. 

In the war of the Rebellion he was apptjinted major of the 
Forty-tourlh lu'i^^iinent Massachu!»ctts Militia, which was mus- 
tered in '2') AuL^ust, lSi!2, sent on service to North Carolina, 
and rctiinicd to Massachusetts to he mustered out, IS dune, 18G3. 

Since his entrance into business, and his marriai^^', Mr. Dabney 
had rested little from the cares and anxieties that beset his ear- 
nest life. He had indefinite plans for the future, however, of 
a journey to Europe, and of remaining there several years. 
These were suddenly solved one winter nii^ht, when his house 
was burned to the uround. Preparations were hurried, and in 
November, 18(58, he sailed, with his family, for Fayal, where 
they passed several months beibre crossing to Lisbon and to 
En«rland. Already ill and worn with overwork before leaving 
Anierica, the strength that had before answered every exigency 
failed him. Though intervals of seemingly pristine health for- 
bade any suspicion of his actual condition, the day came 
when a cold developed alarming symptoms. He was removed 
from Paris to Malvern, Kngl;ind (where he met his father 
and some other triends frt^m Fayal), and died there, 22 De- 
cember, 1870. 

His character is admirably sketched, in an obituary by a friend 
and classmate, printed in the ''Boston Daily Advertiser," 17 
January, 1>!71. 

1847. — C'liAKLics Edward Hodgks was born in Boston, 
Mass., 2'2 Deceml)er, 1821; died in Dorchester, Mass., 14 
June, 1870. He was the fourth child of his parents. 

His father was George Atkinson Hodges, merchant, of Bos- 
ton, son of Jonathan Hodges and Elizabeth Ko[)es. He mar- 
ried Abigail Eliza White, daughter of Henry White and Phebe 
Pjrown, 1) (Jctoi)er, 1817, at Cherry Hill Farm, Pieverly, Mass. 
Judge Nathaniel Hopes (H.C. 1745) and Edward Hodges 
( H.C. 1823) were ancestors of Mr. lb)dges. 

Mr. Hodges studied at Philadelpiila, Salem, and Lowell. 
On his graduation, he joined the Divinity School at Cambridge, 
class of 1850. On 11 June, 1851, he was ordained as pastor 



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of the Unitarian Society at Barre, Mass., and was married on 
the same day to Mary Elizabeth Blood, daughter of Oliver H. 
Blood, M.D. (H.C. 1821), and Ellen Ward Blake, daughter 
of Hon. Francis Blake, Worcester, Mass. 

Mr. Hodges remained in Barre three years. He was settled 
in Watertown, Mass., in 1854; and his health failing, he soon 
after left the ministry, and entered mercantile life in 1856. 
Early in 1868 the disease began, which, after two years of 
great and constant suffering, ended his life. 

Mr. Hodges left a widow and five children : Harrj'- Blake, 
born in Barre, 14 August, 1852 ; Frank Appleton, born in 
Watertown, 30 December, 1855 ; Charles Edward, born in 
Dorchester, 22 May, 1859 ; Percy, born in Dorchester, 3 Octo- 
ber, 1861 ; Mary Elizabeth, born in Dorchester, 29 February, 
1864. 

Mr. Hodges was a man of great decision of character, and 
high moral and physical courage. His preaching was direct and 
earnest, — always true to human rights and freedom of thought 
and speech. Amid the cares of business, and under the heavy 
suffering of sickness, he kept his interest in literature and science, 
and in all the reforms of the day. His social life was marked 
by genial warmth and quickness of sympathy. 

A friend writes ; '^ If I were to choose a word that should best 
express his distinctive moral quality, I should call it loyalty^ — 
loyalty to friendship, to functions, to manly convictions, and to 
ideal aims." 

1852. — Calvin Gates Page was born at 69 Myrtle Street, 
Boston, 3 July, 1829, — the son of Calvin Page, by trade a 
mason, born in Hardwick, Mass. Mr. Page came to Boston 
in early life, and worked on some of the fortifications in the 
harbor. His mother's name was Philanda Gates, born in Spen- 
cer, Mass. [Her father and brother moved to Eastern Penn- 
sylvania before she was twenty.] A woman of rare sweetness 
of temper, and a great deal of what Mrs. Beeclier Stowe calls 
" faculty." Their son was the only child who lived longer than 
ten months. 

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102 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1869-72. 

ceived the Franklin medals. Thinking that a mercantile life 
would best suit his tastes, he entered a jobbing house in Milk 
Street ; but three weeks of business made him glad to yield to 
his parents' wishes, and two years more saw him through the 
Latin School, — the "short course " being made still shorter by a 
dislocated wrist, caused by a fall in the gymnasium. 

He entered college in 1848. His partiality for mathematics 
and proficiency in that science, arising from the thorough 
groundwork laid at the English High School, would alone have 
given him rank ; but excellence in all other departments aided 
him to maintain a o^ood standino^. His father died during: his 
college course, and the settlement of his estate devolved on him, 
causing frequent absences from Cambridge during one year, 
which affected his absolute rank in the class. But his friends 
do not remember him for his undoubted abilities. They like to 
recall his commanding form, his expressive face, his hearty 
greetings, his love of fun, his thorough enjoyment of all that 
was beautiful or noble, his scorn of all that was base, his great 
o^enerositv, and his tender heart. More than one of his class- 
mates could testify of timely help ; and one was enabled to com- 
plete his college course only by Page's offer to be his banker till 
better times came. Such a man could not fail to be popular in 
his class, and accordingly he was a leading spirit in societies, 
class-meetings, and scrapes. If a petition to the faculty, or a 
class agreement was to be circulated, Page was pretty sure to 
be the man to carry it round. He belonged to the Institute of 
1770, the Rumford, the Natural History, the "P T, and the 
Hasty-Pudding Club. He shone most in a little society of 
intimate friends, who cherish the memory of the stories he read 
to them and the songs he sung ; of his joyous laugh, his ready 
sympathy, and manliness. In the senior year he was elected 
class secretary ; and it is easy to recall his tall figure as he strode 
about the grounds, with the great folio that was his badge of 
office under his arm. To some of us there Is hardly a pleasant 
memory of college life that does not bring him to mind. 

Graduating in 1852, after a trip to the White Mountains, he 
entered the Boylston Medical School, also obtaining a coveted 



1869-72.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 103 

place as one of the late Dr. J. Mason Warren's private pupils. 
In July, 1853, he went to Europe, returning in November; he 
spent the tiuie, except what was devoted to a tour of the lakes 
in detail, in the then famous hospitals of Paris. When the 
cholera visited Boston in 1854, he was an assistant in the cholera 
hospital on Fort Hill. He took his degree of M.D. in 1855. 

Dr. Page was as active in his profession as he had been in his 
class. Soundness of judgment and quickness of mind, with 
good powers of observation and fondness for reading, enabled 
him to take a high stand in the esteem of his brethren and the 
confidence of the public. He was always investigating surgical 
appliances, and welcomed all proposed aids to diagnosis or 
treatment, although cautious in their employment till their use- 
fulness was assured. He was steadily acquiring a good practice, 
when the war broke out, and he offered his services to govern- 
ment. He was employed at various posts as acting assistant- 
surgeon, and was appointed surgeon to the Thirty-ninth Massa- 
chusetts Regiment at its formation, where he served with the 
same conscientiousness and unselfish devotion that stamped all 
his work. 

Fifteen months before the close of the war he was at Gallop's 
Island as port-surgeon. On his return home it became certain 
that his health was seriously aflfected, and that he could not 
devote himself to practice as he used to do. Sudden attacks of 
severest pain prostrated him for days. Nevertheless, he did all 
the work he could. He was secretary of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society ; was treasurer of his parish, the New North 
Peligious Society ; was elected to (and this meant with him 
worked in) the school committee, his place on which he resigned 
only two weeks before his death " on account of impaired health." 
He was a member of the Medical Improvement and the Medi- 
cal Observation Societies, the Obstetric Society, tlie jNIedical 
Benevolent, the Howard Benevolent, the Boston Provident 
Association, the Boston Dispensary, the Medical Book Club, 
and the Union Club. The school couHnittee was the only public 
office in whicli he desired to serve. His re[)()rt of the scliool 
committee in 1868 was a work of conscientious labor, performed 



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under difficulties of bodily weakness, which at last, by over- 
exertion in a very feeble state, put an end to his life. A month 
before his death he removed from the house in which he. was 
born to Marlborough Street. He was anticipating much happi- 
ness in this new home, with a family to whom he was devoted, 
where every thing had been planned to suit his tastes and con- 
venience, when a fresh attack of pain, arising from perforation 
of the gall-bladder, caused his death on 29 May, 1869, six 
weeks before his fortieth birthday. He was buried at ]\lount 
Auburn. — Eheu ! quam minus cum reliquis versari quam tui 
meminisse. 

Dr. Page was married 3 October, 1851, to Susan Haskell, 
daughter of Dr. Xathan Cooley and Susan Prentice Keep. 
Their children were : Edith, born 2i] June, 1855 ; Hollis 
Bowman, 27 October, 1859 ; Xathan Keep, 18 January, 1861, 
died, aged 3 years ; Calvin Gates, born 9 July, 1867. 

Obituary notices - of Dr. Page appeared In the " Boston 
Transcript" of 29 May, 1869, and the " Sunday Times'' of May 
30. Appropriate mention was made of him by Dr. Alfred 
Hitchcock in an address before the Massachusetts Medical 
Society at their annual meeting, 2 June, 1869. Resolutions in 
honor of him were passed by the Boston Society for ^ledical 
Observation, by the Boston School Committee, the standing 
committee of the Xew Xorth Keligious Society, and by his class. 

1851. — Edmuxd Rhett, fom^th son of Robert Barnwell 
Rhett, a well-known member of Congress, from South Caro- 
lina, and Elizabeth Burnet, his wife, was born 19 November, 
1833. After two years at the University of South Carolina, 
he entered junior at Harvard, where he scandalized the faculty 
by keeping a bear, in imitation of Lord Byron ; but soon became 
popular with his classmates, in spite of the extravagance of his 
political views. After taking his degree in 1854, he studied 
law in Charleston, and became a frequent contributor to the 
" Mercury," the leading organ of the secession interest, then 
edited bv his elder brother. On the breakinsr out of the civil 
war, he became a captain in a volunteer regiment, but ill health 
compelled him to return to his editorial duties. The termination 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 105 

of the struggle left his family impoverished ; but he accepted the 
issue without a murmur, worked hard on a plantation in sup- 
port of his aged father, and died, unmarried, of consumption, 
29 July, 1871, in his thirty-eighth year. Mr. Rhett was a 
writer of no mean ability, and not a little rancor ; but in private 
life he was ever amiable and genial, and, to the last, sent kind 
remembrances to his Northern friends, who retained a lively 
interest in his welfare. 

1855. — Samuel Einggold Schley, eldest son of William 
Schley, a distinguished lawyer of Baltimore, and Anne Cad- 
wallader, daughter of Gen. Samuel Ringgold, was born in 
Frederick, Md., October, 1836. A pupil of Mr. McNally, of 
Baltimore, he entered junior at Harvard in 1853, passing a very 
successful examination. Althouo^h not ambitious of colleg-e 
honors, he was a great reader, with an especial fondness for the 
classics, a taste which he retained through life. Modest and 
unassuming, with no disposition for general society, he was 
not widely known at Cambridge, but enjoyed the warm attach- 
ment of a little circle of friends of his own and other classes, 
who found him not merely a pleasant companion, but a kind, 
courteous, and straightforward gentleman. After taking his de- 
gree in 1855, he remained a year at the University as a resident 
graduate, and then studied law in Baltimore. But, preferring 
a less sedentary life, he removed to a family estate in the inte- 
rior of Maryland, where he chiefly resided many years, occupied 
with agriculture and field sports. His health failing, he was led 
to give much thought to religion, and became a convert to the 
Roman Catholic faith. This inspired him with so much zeal 
and devotion that he determined to fit himself for the priest- 
hood, and entered the order of Lazarists at St. Vincent de 
Paul's Seminary, Germantown, Pa. He made rapid progress 
in his studies, besides devoting himself to the care of the sick, 
in which he displayed peculiar gentleness and aptitude. Over- 
tasking a constitution never robust, he was ordered to a milder 
climate, and died of consumption in New Orleans, 21 April, 
1871, in the thirty-fifth year of his age, surrounded by warm 
religious friends, whose account of his last moments was very 

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consoling to those -who loved him. At his request, his remains 
were interred in the vault of his order at Germantown. 

1857. — JosL\H Xewell AVillard was the son of Dr. 
Henry and Rebecca A. (Grozier) Willard, and was born in 
Provincetown, Mass., 16 November, 1835. His grandfather 
had been a country physician, but for twenty years before his 
death had lived on his farm in Wrentham. His father prac- 
tised for seventeen years in Provincetown, then moved to Fall 
River, and afterwards to Boston, where he died in 1855. 

Dr. J. N. Willard graduated in medicine in 1860. Before 
taking his medical degree, he passed a year at the Massachusetts 
General Hospital as one of the house physicians. In August, 
1861, he was commissioned assistant-surgeon of the Nineteenth 
Massachusetts Volunteers. In November, 1862, he became 
surgeon of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and, in that 
capacity, served until October, 1864, when his health became seri- 
ously injured, and he was discharged for disability. He remained 
in Boston for some time, and started for California, in search of 
health, in January, 1865. In March, 1866, he engaged him- 
self as surgeon of a line of steamers running between San 
Francisco, Gal., and Mazatlan, in Mexico. He remained in 
this employment, though with constantly failing health, until 
October, 1869, when he became more ill, and, by the advice of 
friends, went to Minnesota. In the spring he set out on his 
journey home, and reached Philadelphia, where he died, among 
his friends, 1 May, 1870. 

1857. — Francis Codman Ropes, son of William and Mary 
Anne (Codman) Ropes, was born at Islington, London, during 
the temporary residence of his parents at that place, 7 October, 
1837. His ancestors, on the father's side, were among the first 
settlers of Massachusetts, being found in Salem about 1630. 
His father was a well-known merchant of Boston. His mother 
was a daughter of the late Hon. John Codman, also a well- 
known merchant of Boston. He was educated in the Boston 
schools, and in 1857 was graduated at Cambridge. He took 
his degree in medicine at Harvard University in 1860, and im- 
mediately went to Europe to continue his studies there. Dur- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 107 

ing more than four years he devoted himself assiduously to his 
work, under the best masters of the day in London, Dublin, 
Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He occasionally devoted 
a few weeks to travel ; but, for the greater part of the time, 
busied himself in laying the foundation of a medical education, 
on which to establish his future professional career. At Edin- 
burgh he became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians 
and of the Royal College of Surgeons, of which latter institu- 
tion he was made a fellow in August, 18(34; he was also a 
member of the Hunterian Medical Society of Edinburgh, and 
corresponding member of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. 

Dr. Ropes returned to this country in October, 1864, and at 
once became an acting assistant-surgeon in the hospital at Read- 
ville, where he remained till the discontinuance of the hospital 
in the summer of 1865. He then began practice in Boston ; 
soon became one of the attending physicians, and, afterwards, 
one of the surgeons of the Boston Dispensary. He was elected 
surgeon to the out-patients at the Boston City Hospital in 
August, 1867, and one of the visiting surgeons of the same, 
to serve from 1 April, 1868. This latter position he held 
at the time of his death, being the youngest member of the 
staff. 

His health had not been very firm while in Europe ; and 
shortly after his return to this country he recognized, for the 
first time, that he was afflicted with Bright's disease of the 
kidneys. He had several acute attacks of this disease from 
1865 to 1869, and, when overworked, complained frequently 
of great exhaustion ; but, by dint of great care, the best 
medical advice, and a naturally vigorous constitution, he man- 
aged to enjoy, on the whole, good health, up to the time of 
his last attack on 1 September, 1869 He died two weeks 
later, on the loth. Dr. Ropes was never married. 

A notice of him by his friend, Dr. Dyer Duckworth, of Lon- 
don, is copied from the "British Medical Journal" of 10 Octo- 
ber, 1869: "The cliaractcr of Dr. Ropes was one of singular 
beauty and worth. In his profession he was earnest and active ; 
devoted with his whole soul to medicine, as a true physician 



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should be, he was respected and beloved by his brethren and his 
patients, and seemed destined to eminence at an early age. The 
resolutions by the members of his college-class express con- 
cisely and truly their testimony to the worth of his private 
character, and will meet a ready response from those who knew 
him. We recall the modesty and purity of his private life ; the 
untiring energy, ability, and conscientiousness with which he 
followed his chosen profession ; the kindliness and simplicity of 
his nature ; his high sense of honor ; his love of home and 
music and near friends ; his interest in the welfare of college 
mates and college associations ; and, finally, that peaceful and 
strong Christian faith, formed early in life, which gave him 
such resignation and unwillingness to spare himself, even when 
suffering from a fatal disorder." 

1861. — Charles Duncan Lamb was born in Boston, 13 
May, 1841. His father, Thomas Lamb, president of the New- 
England Bank, was a shipping-merchant of Boston. His mother, 
Hannah Dawes Eliot, was born in Roxbury, daughter of Wm. 
G. Eliot, and granddaughter of Hon. Judge Dawes, of Boston. 
Duncan was fitted for college by Thomas Bradford. He went 
after graduation to Philadelphia, into the store of his uncle, 
Frank Andrew Eliot, a wool-merchant in that city. One month 
before Duncan was to have been taken into the firm, his uncle, 
Mr. Eliot, went to the war as captain of the One-hundred-and- 
fourteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, and was mortally wounded at 
the battle of Chancellors ville ; and Duncan, who had ardently 
desired to enlist after he left college, returned to Boston to 
receive a commission as second-lieutenant of the Second Massa- 
chusetts Heavy Artillery Company from Gov. Andrew. Be- 
fore returning home, Duncan acted several weeks as a private 
in a Pennsylvania light artillery company, which was raised in 
haste to protect Pennsylvania from a raid by Gen. Lee. 

When Duncan was at Fortress Monroe he received a letter 
from ills friend and classmate, Stephen M. Weld, then colonel 
of the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, inviting him to join 
his regiment as captain, saying they " were under fire, and should 
remain so till they got into Richmond." Duncan went imme- 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 109 

diately. He was in that awful battle, over the mine, before 
Petersburg, 30 July, 1864, when his colonel and all his superior 
officers were either taken prisoners or wounded. Three officers 
and one hundred and four men of this regiment came out of this 
battle. 

Duncan was in command of this remnant of the Fifty-sixth 
when they were ordered to keep the rebels from attacking the 
Fifth Corps, who were retaking the Welden Railroad. About 
an hour before this battle, but after the order had been given, 
Duncan received a staff commission, and was ordered to join 
his general at once. This commission was in his pocket, satur- 
ated with blood, when he was brought home. 

In this battle of the Welden Railroad, Duncan received a 
severe wound from a minie ball, which entered his neck, break- 
ing his under jaw. He was taken to the City Point Hospital in 
Virginia, and his life was despaired of for a long time. Youth 
and a powerful constitution prevailed, and after many months 
of severe suffering he recovered. In 1865 he went to Europe, 
where he consulted with the best surgeons in England and 
France. Nothing more could be done for his comfort than had 
been done by Dr. Townsend and others in Boston. He was 
always obliged to wear a frame in his mouth, to keep his face in 
form. This was not apparent, as his thick beard covered it; but 
he never, for one moment, was free from annoyance. He suf- 
fered in speaking and in eating. But his nearest friend never 
heard one complaint or regret from him ; his patience was sim- 
ply wonderful. 

In 1866 he resumed business as a wool-broker, but soon gave 
it up, for it was so difficult to talk, and it gave him constant 
disquiet. Then he studied under Mr. Ware at the Tech- 
nological Institute, lioping to become an architect, for his 
taste liad always led him to this study ; but his health 
steadily declined. Seeing him about, his intimate friends did 
not dream how constantly he suffered, for he never spoke of 
himself. 

He was his class-marshal on Commencement day, 1871. 
Only his indomitable will kept him up through that day. After 



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this exertion his illness increased steadilv. He suffered patientlv 
until 2 September, when he died. 

l'S62. — John Haevard Ellis was the only child of George 
E. Ellis (H.C. 1833) and Elizabeth Bruce Eager, both 
natives of Boston. He was born 9 January, 1841. His 
mother died 8 April, 1842. He was educated for the most 
part at home by his father, and entered Harvard 1858. On 
graduating with his class in 1862, he pursued the regular 
course of study for the law in the school at Cambridge and 
in the office of the Hon. E. E. Parker in Boston. He received 
the degree of LL.B. m 1864, was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 18 65, and was commissioned as justice by Gov. Bullock 
in 1868. He cultivated and indidged his hterary tastes while 
faithfully piu'suing his professional studies, having a special 
interest in antiquarian researches and in numismatics, and 
beino' a member of the societv eno-aoed in investio-atino- the 
latter subject. He was a frequent contributor to the joiu^nals 
of the city, and wrote for the ^'~ Law Magazine " articles upon 
Lord Brougham, James Otis, &c. In the year 1867 he 
edited an elegant quarto volume, entitled " The AVorks of Anne 
Bradstreet, in Prose and Verse," with notes, and an elaborate 
introduction of seventy pages, in which, by a summary literary 
sketch, he sought to trace the books which had been read and 
the sources of information which had been drawn upon by the 
famous " Tenth Muse," whose curious works lie was reviving for 
a new o-eneration. He was married by his tather in Boston, on 
26 March, 1869, to Miss Grace Atkinson, only daughter of 
Mr. James L. Little, and immediately started on an extensi^'c 
European tour. He had enjoyed from his birth iminterrupted 
and vigorous health : but the seeds of disease were developed in 
him while abroad, and he arrived here with his wife on their 
return, 26 October, only to struggle with increasing weakness, 
till, surrounded with all the means of a happy and useful life, 
and ministered to by the tenderest love, he calmly resigned him- 
self to the early end that was appointed for him. His hfe, 
which had been pure and highly favored, was closed 3 May, 
1870. 



18G9-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Ill 

1865. — Frederic Ware was born in Cambridge, Mass., 
3 June, 1843. He was the son of Kev. William Ware (H.C. 
1816) and Mary (Waterhouse) Ware, and grandson of Henry 
Ware (H.C. 1785). He studied with his sisters till 1856, and 
from that time till he went to college in 1861 was in the Wash- 
ington Grammar School and Cambridge High School. While 
still a little boy, he was always at work on electrical and other 
mechanical machines ; and when twelve years old, had already 
begun to devote himself to the study of natural history, which 
occupied the greater part of his free time and thought till he left 
college. Ornithology was his particular branch, and he made 
larore collections of birds and e^o-s for the Ao^assiz Natural His- 
tory Society, which was composed of him and four other boys. 
He had considerable taste for drav^ing, though he practised it 
very little. 

In colleo^e he was an intellisfent and industrious student, al- 
ways punctual at lectures. He attended the advanced lectures 
on botany and chemistry, and was a member of the Har- 
vard Natural History Society, holding, from time to time, 
several offices in it. After graduation from college, he entered 
the Harvard Medical School, but studied anatomy and physi- 
ology with Prof. Jeffries Wyman during the first year. While 
in the school, he was a member of the Boylston Medical So- 
ciety. In July, 1868, he received the degree of M.D., and 
soon after went to Germany. About six weeks were passed in 
Dresden studying German, before going to Vienna. Enthusi- 
astic letters from these two cities show how much he enjoyed 
the music and picture galleries, for which they are famous ; and 
his appreciation of the medical advantages was proved by the 
industry with which he attended the clinics. 

The weather in Vienna was very disagreeable ; but his health 
did not suffer till he had left Vienna, in the spring of 1869, 
to go to Berlin, by way of Munich and Prague. On the 
way to Dresden he caught cold, and one of his lungs became 
affected. From this time onward his health must liave been 
fiiiling steadily ; but though he was perfectly aware of the state 



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he was in, he never gave up endeavoring, by cheerfulness and 
patience, to make every one happy around him. 

He had to give up one by one his plans for continuing his 
studies, and in the latter part of June went to Soden, a small 
watering-place near Frankfort, where he died, 24 July, at the 
age of twenty-six years. 

1869. — James Phineas Whitney was born in Boston, 
12 January, 1847. He was the son of George Alfred and 
Mary Davenport (Hay ward) Whitney. His great-grandfather, 
for whom he was named, was the Rev. Phineas Whitney 
(H.C. 1759). His father had intended entering Harvard 
College, but in the course of preparation his eyes failed him, 
and he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits. Many of 
his male ancestors on his mother's side were graduates of the 
college. He had always lived in Boston, and was fitted by 
private tutors for the Latin School, in which he accomplished 
the full course. He entered college as a freshman, in 1865, 
and graduated in 1869, with especial honors in the departments 
of history and political economy. After his graduation, he 
went abroad in company with several of his classmates, but was 
recalled after a short stay, by the illness of his only brother. 
From that time until he entered the Institute of Technology in 
October, 1870, his time was devoted to the care of his invalid 
brother, for whom he had a deep affection. His brother's sud- 
den death, during a temporary absence of a few hours, was a 
sad blow to his spirits and health, and diminished his power to 
resist the illness from which he died, after a few days of intense 
suffering, 6 September, 1871. He was of a modest and unas- 
suming disposition, pure and high-minded, and incapable of a 
mean action. All those who knew him best fully understood 
his generous and unselfish character. 

1870. — Stephen Yan Eensselaer Thayer died in Bos- 
ton, 10 October, 1871, aged twenty-four years. He was the 
oldest son of Nathaniel and Cornelia (Yan Rensselaer) Thayer. 
Among his ancestors were Nathaniel Thayer, D.D. (H.C. 1789), 
of Lancaster, Mass., a grandfather; and Stephen Yan Rens- 
selaer, LL.D. (H.C. 1782), a great-grandfather. 



1869-72.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 113 

He was born in Boston, 2 August, 1847, and prepared for 
college with Mr. E. S. Dixwell and Mr. G. W. Pierce. In 
1857 he spent a year in Europe; in 1865 he went with Prof. 
Agassiz to Brazil, and travelled much in its interior; in 1868 
he again visited Europe, and in 1869, California. 

In 1866 he entered college, and graduated in 1870, having 
been president of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty-Pudding 
Club, the Boat Club, and the Class Supper ; chief-marshal of 
his class, and a member of his class and the University crews. 

Soon after graduating, November, 1870, he married Alice, 
daughter of Andrew and Mary (Allen) Robeson ; and his new 
life began with the hope which seemed so justified by charac- 
ter and health and wealth. 

On 15 July, 1871, a son, Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer, 
was born to him. In the same month a slight exposure in- 
duced a cough, which attacked his lungs, and rapid consumption 
ensued. 

His amiable and generous character made him the favorite of 
his fellows ; his sympathetic temperament gained him many 
friends ; his position gave him peculiar opportunities for giving 
and for helping ; and it is seldom that so early a death is so 
widely and so keenly felt. 

A pamphlet, entitled " Tribute to the Memory of Stephen Van 
Rensselaer Thayer," was privately printed soon after his death, 
containing a sermon by Rev. G. M. Bartol, two obituary notices, 
and the resolutions of his class. 

1870. — Roger Williams Swaine was born in Worcester, 
12 July, 1848. Ilis grandfather, the Hon. Thomas Swaine, of 
New Jersey, died in 1861. His father, Samuel B. Swaine, 
D.D., was born in Pembroke, N.J., 22 June, 1809, and died 
in Cambridge, Mass., 3 February, 1865. His mother's name, 
before marriage, was Aurora D. Skinner, born in AVindsor, Vt. 
His ancestors on both sides served in the wars of the Revolution 
and 1812. His father was pastor of the First Baptist Church 
in Worcester from 1839 to 1854. He afterwards removed to 
Arlington, and thence to Cambridge. 

He prepared for college at the Cambridge High School, 

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and entered the elass of 1870, witliout conditions. While 
there he was a nieiiiher of the // // and Society of Christian 
Brethren. 

He early exhibited a ^reat fondness for books, and had ac- 
qnired a thorough knowled<;o of the leading works of the day, 
inelnding history, travel, and standard fiction. I lis relif^ious 
character Nvas tlie chief featnre of his life, which led him to 
the choice of the ministry as his profession. II«' was of a 
(juiet, unassuming disposition. After graduation, he travelled 
abroad for two years to restore his health, which had been 
somewhat injured by excessive devotion to his books while at 
Cambridge, although he was of a naturally strong and hearty 
temperament. lie left home in July, 1^70, and travelled 
through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, and then returned 
to Germany, to study at Berlin during the winter of 1871—72. 
He was a member of the university there. Early in the spring 
of 1S72 he revisited Italy. He was first taken ill while in 
Naples and Rome, and went to Florence for relief, where he 
arrived on 18 March. He was almost immediately taken sick 
with congestion of the brain, of which he died, 1 April, at the 
age of twenty-three years, eight months, and nineteen days. 
He was buried from the American chapel in Florence, and the 
remains will be interred in Mount Auburn. 



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1821. — Cyrus Briggs was born March 9th, 1800, at Little 
Compton, E.I. ; studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Bigelow, of 
Boston, and was graduated at the Harvard Medical College 
in 1826. In March, 1827, he began the practice of his profes- 
sion in Augusta, Me. At the time he was the only young 
practitioner in that town. He continued uninterruptedly in 
practice here until 1870. For about a year previous to his 
death he was absent most of the time from his home, on visits 
to his friends and relations. On one of these visits, while at 
the house of his classmate, C. W. Upham, in Salem, Mass. 
he suddenly died, of heart disease, 24 June, 1871. 

Dr. Briggs was a skilful physician, industrious, prompt, re- 
markably attentive to his patients, and was successful in the 
treatment of diseases. He followed the safe and beaten track 
marked and worn by the leaders in the profession ; and by his 
kindness, affability, and diligence he became very popular and 
had a large practice. Surgery was not to his taste, and ex- 
cept in its simplest forms he never attempted it. His plain- 
heartedness and uniform sincerity and modesty in his profes- 
sional efforts and practice begot a general confidence ; and, 
while he cannot be regarded as having been eminent in his 
profession, it may be said that he possessed the natural abil- 
ity to have been so. Habit of laborious study, with persistent 
effort at improvement, would have given a stimulus to his 
active mind, and with a laudable ambition would have placed 
him high on the roll of professional fame. 



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Dr. Briggs married, 7 May, 1827, Louisa Fisk, daughter of 
the late Benjamin Fisk, merchant of Boston, by whom he had 
four children : Sarah Louisa, married to Rev. Wheelock Craig j 
Nancy Adams ; Ehzabeth Church, married to Wm. A. Dana ; 
and Anna Fisk, died young. 

1822. — Frederick Yose, born at Walpole, N.H., 2 Novem- 
ber, 1801, was the sou of Roger Yose and Rebecca, daughter 
of Col. John Bellows. Roger Yose was a graduate of Harvard 
College of the class of 1790, a lawyer by profession, at one 
time judge of the Court of Common Pleas in New Hampshire, 
and representative in Congress from 1813 to 1817. 

Frederick Yose, while fitting for college, was in school at 
Milton, Mass. He studied law in the office of his father at 
Walpole, where he resided and continued the practice of his 
profession until the time of his death. He was for several 
years judge of probate for the County of Cheshire, represen- 
tative for Walpole in the legislature ; also senator, railroad 
commissioner, and President of the Cheshire County Bank, 
and Cheshire County National Bank, from the year 1858 to 
the time of his death, which occurred in New York, 16 Novem- 
ber, 1871. 

Judge Roger Yose was a member of that association of wits, 
celebrated in the traditions of Western New Hampshire, who 
aided in founding '' The Farmer's Museum," said by the late 
J. T. Buckingham to have been one of the leading journals of 
the LTnited States, and in which, if we are not mistaken, Den- 
ny's " Lay Preacher " first appeared. 

Judge Frederick Yose was an accomplished scholar, a well 
trained and thorough lawyer, practised his profession with suc- 
cess, and in his private business and as a public officer ob- 
tained and justified the confidence of all who knew him. 

1831. — William Saxton Morton, son of Joseph and Mary 
(Wheeler) Morton, was born in Roxbury, September 22, 1809, 
and died at Quincy, 21 September, 1871, aged 62 years. On 
October 3, 1839, he married, at Boston, Miss Mary Jane 
Woodbury Grimes, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Wood- 
bury) Grimes. His father having removed to Milton, his early 
education was in that town, at the Milton Academy and a large 



1869-72.] NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 117 

private school. Subsequently he was placed at Mr. C. W. 
Greene's school at Jamaica Plain, and finally at Exeter 
Academy, then under Mr. Benjamin Abbot, where he was pre- 
pared for the University. At college he was one of the brightest 
of his class, always distinguished for his agreeable conver- 
sational powers and his ready wit. Unambitious of college 
position and honors, he passed his term of collegiate residence 
more in pursuing his course of reading the English prose and 
poetic classics than in the studies required for attaining 
scholastic rank. At graduation he was unanimously selected 
by his class to write the class song, which duty he performed 
in a very acceptable manner ; and the whole class joined in 
singing it, as they danced around Liberty Tree, between Holden 
Chapel and Harvard Hall, on class day. His competitors for 
the class poem were William Austin, who wrote it, and Robert 
Habersham, who wrote a very acceptable ode. The closing 
stanza of Mr. Morton's song gives more truthfully than other 
words can impart the turn of mind which Mr. Morton had while 
with his class-mates : — 

"One sigh for the past, which returns not again,. 

One hope for the future now opening before us, 
One prayer to the spirit, beneath whose mild reign. 

The full drops of fortune come showeringly o'er us ; 
And away though we roam, over ocean's wild foam, 

Or repose in the sweeter enjoyments of home, 
Yet whenever a classmate shall greet our glad eyes. 

Let the name of Old Harvard in chorus arise." 

After leaving college, Mr. Morton entered upon the study 
of law under the late attorney-general, Perez Morton, and 
continued the same under Sidney Bartlett, in Boston, and 
completed his studies in Hopkinton, N.H. For a short time 
he practised law in Amherst, N.H., but moved to Quincy in 
1840, where for more than thirty years he resided, fulfilling 
faithfully his duty in various offices of trust and responsibility. 
In 1850 he represented Quincy as delegate to the Constitu- 
tional Convention, and subsequently as a representative in the 
General Court. He possessed such a versatility of mind and 
ability that he at the same time presided over the affairs of a 



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bank, insurance company, and the school committee of the 
town in which he resided, and was trial justice for the county 
of Xorfolk. 

1847. — William Belcher Glazier was born at Hallowell, 
Me., 29 June, 1827, of Franklin Glazier and Julia (Tarbox) 
Glazier his wife. Franklin Glazier was a printer and pub- 
lisher ; and, later in life, cashier of a bank at Hallowell. 
William Belcher Glazier graduated at Harvard 27 August, 
1847, and returned to Hallowell, where he was shortly ad- 
mitted to the bar, and began the practice of the law. In ISo-l 
he moved to Cincinnati, and continued to practise law there for 
a short time. Not being successful, he served as clerk to B. 
C. True, a Justice of the Peace, for two years. He was after- 
wards clerk to the Mayor of Cincinnati for two years, and sub- 
sequently deputy surveyor of the customs in the same city. 
On 1 January, 1863, he married Margaret Lowry, daughter 
of James and Margaret Lowry, and had children : Julia 
Mary, born 4 December, 1864 : William Leonard, born 25 
July, 1867 ; and Margaret Lowry, born 3 December, 1868. 
He had a great fondness for beUes-Iettres and considerable 
acquaintance with English literature. He published one 
volume of poems. His habit of drinking prevented his at- 
taining the success to which his ability entitled him, and 
hastened his death, which occurred at Cincinnati, 25 October, 
1870. 

1851. — Datid Parsons Wilder was born 14 May, 1826, 
in the town of Worthington, Mass., the eighth of a family of 
nine children. When he was one year old, the family removed 
to Pittsfield, where he attended school, somewhat irregularly, 
till twelve years old, when he went to live with an uncle in 
Chesterfield, remaining there for four years, working on his 
uncle's farm in the summer and attending school in the winter 
months. In February, 1843, he engaged himself to a farmer 
in Suffield, Conn., by whom he was released at '• Thanks- 
giving '' time, and entered the Academy in that place, defraying 
his expenses, as before, by manual labor. At the age of eigh- 
teen, he obtained the position of teacher in one of the public 
schools in Suffield, and met with such success as to awaken the 



1869-72.] NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 119 

desire to fit himself for teaching as a profession. In the 
spring of 1845, he accordingly entered the Academy at East- 
hampton, where he remained till the following November (with 
occasional intervals of farm work), when he assumed the charge 
of a school in West Suffield, which, though it had borne an evil 
reputation, was successfully administered by him. Here he 
formed the design of going to college, and returned to East- 
hampton Academy, where, and at Andover, he completed his 
preparatory studies. During his freshman year, he taught 
school in the town of Harvard ; in the sophomore and junior 
years, at Dedham ; and in the senior year, at Dennis. The 
year after graduating he was elected professor of mathematics 
in the Newton University, at Baltimore, He received the de- 
gree of Master of Arts in 1854, and entered the Dane Law 
School in the same year. In the autumn of the same year he 
went to Chicago and began the practice of law, " without money 
and without friends," to use his own words ; having, however, 
before his death, obtained a reasonable share of both. 

He married, 1 January, 1857, Mary R., daughter of Clarke 
Partridge, of Medway, Mass., and leaves five children: the 
oldest and youngest, sons ; the others, daughters. 

He died 26 March, 1872, at his residence in Winnetka, a 
small town some fifteen miles north of Chicago, of malignant 
jaundice, after an illness of a few days, leaving behind him an 
enviable reputation as a lawyer and as a man. 

1859. — Jacob Abbot Cram, who for some years past has 
been a member of the Chicago Bar, died suddenly in that 
city, from the effects of an overdose of hydrate of chloral, 
on the 5 April last. He was born at Hampton Falls, N.H., 
24 April, 1836. He was fitted for college at Exeter Academy, 
and entered the class of 1859 at Harvard University about 
the close of the freshman year. He was a very strong, 
clear-headed man, and soon took rank among the ablest of the 
class, distinguishing himself particularly in debates, lectures, 
&c., before the class societies. He was for one year an editor 
of the " Harvard Magazine." At all times he impressed those 
with whom he came in contact as eminently qualified for success 
at the bar, and particularly as a prominent candidate for the 



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bench, should he live to ripen into maturity. He attended after 
graduation a course at the Harvard Law School, and then went 
to Chicago to practise in his profession ; and it was there 
that he continued to reside until his death. He was never 
married. 

1865. — Benjamin Mills Peirce, son of Prof. Benjamin and 
Sarah (Mills) Peirce, was born at Cambridge, 19 March, 
18-14. His infancy and childhood gave manifest tokens both 
of superior capacity and of strongly marked peculiarities. He 
was ardently affectionate, and easily persuaded by those whom 
he loved, yet not a facile subject for arbitrary restraint or rule.' 
He had great power of labor and of acquisition, without forming 
the habit thus early of continuous industry. 

He entered Harvard College in 1861. His life here was the 
prolongation of his boyhood, intensified. Regular study, 
orderly division of time, passive submission to the stated col- 
lege regime^ seem not to have entered into his plan of life. 
Fitfully excelling at times in some departments, never more 
than sub-lustrous in others, yet at no time found wanting when 
the demand upon him could be met from his own quick thought 
and ready wit, he enhanced with those who had previously 
known him their estimate of his genius. During this period 
his artistical taste grew into a positive talent, and his pencil 
promised to become a power. 

Peirce graduated in 1865. A few days after Commencement 
he sailed for Europe, having, to the surprise of almost all his 
friends, chosen the profession of a mining engineer. He went 
directly to Paris, and in the autumn entered the School of 
Mines. He became at once a man of vigorous will and 
strenuous purpose, a self-denying and hard-working student, 
and an earnest and aggressive thinker, not only in the sciences 
connected with his intended profession, but even more in the 
higher realm of mental philosophy. In the summer of 1866 he 
made an excursion to Auvergne with a favorite classmate, and 
sought his recreation in the study of the geology of that 
remarkable region. On the re-opening of the courses, he 
resumed his work in Paris, and pursued it with undiminished 
zeal until the following May. He then went to Freiberg, where 



1869-72.] NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 121 

he found at the School of Mines no less than six Harvard 
graduates — one of them a classmate — who had been for many 
months established there. He spent three months partly in 
the practical study of metallurgy at Freiberg, and partly in 
exploring the mining district of Bohemia ; his course at Paris 
having needed precisely such complementary opportunities, of 
which he was prepared to avail himself to the full. He then 
returned to Paris, completed his examinations there, and 
shortly afterward sailed for home. He spent the winter of 
1867-68 in Cambridge, engaged partly in the further pursuit 
of chemical studies at the Lawrence Scientific Scliool, and 
partly in preparing for publication an admirably written and 
valuable pamphlet on the results of scientific researcli in Green- 
land and Iceland. In May, 1868, he went to Marquette, near 
Lake Superior, on an engagement with the Lake Superior 
Mining Company. He had been there but a little while when 
the most important and valuable portion of tbe town was 
destroyed by fire. Roused from sleep by the alarm, perceiving 
that liis own lodgings were in no immediate danger, and 
liearing that the property of his employers was imperilled, Mr. 
Peirce gave all his thought and energy to the demand thus 
made upon him, and learned only too late that the confla- 
gration had extended to tlie spot from which he started. The 
result was the almost total loss of his own possessions, includ- 
ing not only Ids personal effects and his earliest earnings, but 
his scientific books and apparatus collected in Europe, his 
manuscript notes of lectures, and many other things which 
money could not replace. He bore this loss bravely ; and, if it 
had any effect upon him, it was to stimulate him to more 
vigorous effort. 

Mr. Peirce passed most of the winter of 1868-69 at 
Cambridge, busily engaged for the greater part of the time in 
the Laboratory of the Scientific School. On his return to 
Lake Superior, he was obliged to perform the latter part 
of the journey in an open sleigh, in the still unabated severity 
of a north-western winter. This exposure led to an attack of 
pleurisy, from tlie effects of which he never recovered. Ho 
now took up his residence at Islipening, a small village in the 

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122 APPENDIX. [1869-72. 

midst of the mining operations, barren of all interest other 
than material, and in its situation, condition, and surround- 
ings, dreary and depressing. Here he taxed his strength to 
the utmost in the perplexing and difficult operations under 
his superintendence, spending most of his time on the field of 
labor, and still occupying his few spare hours in writing for 
the Marquette newspaper. He was painfully aware of im- 
paired health, but looked forward to a long season of rest and 
recreation at home during the ensuing winter. However, 
just as he was starting on his homeward journey, his employ- 
ers offered to double his salary, and to carry out in full certain 
experimental operations, in which he had been engaged during 
the preceding summer, with strong confidence in their ulti- 
mate success, but under unfavorable circumstances. With 
such inducements, he shortened his visit in Cambridge, not- 
withstanding a severe attack of illness while there, and about 
midwinter returned to Ishpening. 

The remainder of his life was a perpetual struggle of in- 
tense energy and will power with increasing physical infirmity 
and suffering. He fully matured the detailed plans for the 
operations of the ensuing season, and in this and other ways 
kept himself busy as long as the possibility of work remained. 
But he at length became convinced that it would be necessary 
for him to abandon his post, and return to the East as soon as 
the lake navigation should open. He accordingly wrote home 
for some member of his family to meet him, and accompany 
him on the journey, which in his enfeebled condition he could 
not safely undertake alone. Before the letter was received a 
telegraphic summons had expedited the mission from home ; 
but his brothers arrived too late to see him die. Strangers, 
however, had become his friends ; and there were several per- 
sons — among them a Roman Catholic priest — who watched 
over him in his last days with the most sedulous care and the 
utmost tenderness, and to whom he was endeared, not only 
by his need of their kind offices, but still more by his brilliant 
and genial qualities, which were unimpaired to the very last. 
His death occurred on the 22 April, 1870. 



1869-72.] NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 123 

1870. — Frederic Wadsworth Loring, was the oldest son 
of David Loring and Mary (Stodder) Loring. He was born at 
Fall River, 12 December, 1848 ; but most of his life was spent 
in or near Boston, to which place his father removed soon after 
his birth. 

He showed in early life his enthusiasm for poetry, and we 
may even say for literature. He really enjoyed Shakspeare's 
plays at an age when many boys cannot read. Under the care 
of his mother, a person of rare genius and intelligence, his 
boyish taste and talent were wisely directed, and he was saved 
from the dangers of precocity. She died before he was eleven 
years old ; but the most careful attention was still given to his 
education, and, though many of the enforced processes of the 
school-room were such as he detested, he was trained in the 
Boston Latin School, in the Newton High School, and in 
the Academy at Andover, to enter college. 

In college his life was made a happy one, by the opportunity 
which he had there for the indulgence of the passion for litera- 
ture and poetry which had led him on from childhood. His 
college instructors would probably say that there was some 
hard work in persuading him to keep up for examinations in 
studies for which he did not care. But he found among them 
sympathy and counsel which he heartily prized, and for which 
he was most grateful. Prof. Cutler's kindness in caring for 
him was most gratefully acknowledged, and his early death was 
one more among the sad griefs of Loring's young life. 

His literary tastes brought him, while still an undergraduate, 
into intimate connections with the stage ; and lie studied care- 
fully, and with good result, dramatic composition. He wrote 
for Miss Mitchell one little play, while yet in college ; and, for 
the benefit of a young friend, another drama called the " Wild 
Rose," both of which were produced with success. 

As one of the editors of the " Harvard Advocate," he printed 
many little poems. Some of them are simply " Verses of 
Society," some of them are of much graver import. They 
arrested immediate attention, and showed to a larger public — 
what his friends knew — that Loring's literary taste not only 
gave him critical power, but guided a light and skilful pen. 



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Verses of his, and brilliant and pathetic stories in " Old and 
Xew." and in the •' Atlantic Monthly," confirmed the impression 
made by his little poems in the "Advocate." He was pleased but 
not spoiled by the reception they found at the public's hands. 
He wrought more carefully than ever, when he found he had a 
reputation to maintain. He has left behind him some careful 
studies, of a graver character than any thing which he printed, 
because he would not publish articles which did not yet please 
him ; and because he had some severe canons of criticism to 
which he subjected his own work, even when he knew it was 
ephemeral. 

This little career of authorship had begun before he gradu- 
ated. He was thus almost predestined to the flattering, irk- 
some, and dangerous career of a journalist. So soon as he 
graduated, he made engagements, now longer, now shorter, 
with different Boston papers ; and he would probably have en- 
tered upon some permanent engagement in Xew York, but for 
the sudden temptation to spend the summer of 1871 with Lieut. 
Wheeler's surveying party in Colorado. He went into this 
wild region as correspondent of " Appletons' Journal." In that 
paper will be found his own narrative of his adventures there. 
The expedition seemed, so far as he was concerned, to be 
entirely successful. He gained in health and spirits. He 
made acquaintance with the men and things of a world wholly 
new to him. He adapted himself with the most cheerful and 
amusing philosophy to the little hardships of the camp. He 
was returning to the coast, to be, as all his friends supposed, 
the delight of their winter, — when the stage-coach in which 
he travelled was attacked by Indians, or by men disguised as 
Indians, and he with others was immediately killed. 

" I will be with you in the winter," are his last words to a 
friend in Xew York, "if I am not scalped by the Apaches." 

His little poems are collected in one volume : his longest 
story, " College Friends," in another. They are sad memorials 
of the animated and inspiriting boy, who took his friends cap- 
tive by his loyalty and his frank confidence; who gave such 
brilliant promise ; and who, in all his impetuosity and pas- 
sionate eagerness of temper, never lost sight of the duties or 
responsibilities of a friend. 



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1871. — Michael Henry Simpson was born in Boston, 19 
October, 1850. His father, M. H. Simpson, was a woollen man- 
ufacturer, and also an inventor. His paternal grandfather was 
a shipbuilder at Newburyport ; and his father, a farmer at York, 
Me. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Kilhaul, a 
tailor of Boston, and he was the son of a farmer of Wenham. 
Most of his uncles on both sides were sea-captains. Some mat- 
ters of interest are recorded of his paternal grandmother's 
family, the Johnsons, of Newburyport. Her father, one of the 
chief shipbuilders of the place, went up with his workmen and 
destroyed the tea in Newburyport at the time of the Boston 
tea-party ; and one of her brotliers, a sea-captain, first hoisted 
the stars and stripes in the Thames, after the Revolution. 
Simpson was sent to a private school, taught by a Mrs. Ste- 
venson, when he was seven years old. At the age of nine, 
after two years' study at a private school, he entered the 
Mayliew Grammar School, where he remained for three years. 
At the age of twelve he entered the Latin School, where he 
stayed until he was sixteen, skipping the fifth class, and stand- 
ing ready for the first class at the end of the four years. In 
May, 1866, he was promised a trip to Europe .in the fall, pro- 
vided he could accomplisli the one year's work before him. 
This he did during the summer, and in the September exam- 
inations of that year was admitted to college with but one con- 
dition in geometry. In October he started for Europe, and 
travelled there till August, 1867 ; then returned, and at tlie 
fall examinations entered Harvard, 1871, with no conditions. 

His course through college was marked with success in 
every particular, and gave much promise for tlie future. A 
diligent student, quick to comprehend, and of retentive mem- 
ory, he excelled in all his studies, and ranked third on the 
general scale. He received a detiir for excellence in liis 
freshman studies, and was assigned an oration for his Com- 
mencement part. In liis Sophomore year he was one of the 
prime movers in founding a new literary society called the 
Everett Athenaium, and was one of its firmest su[)porters. 
He was also a member of the Christian Brethren, Natural 
History Society, Hasty Pudding Club, 0. K., Phi Beta Kappa, 



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bonoraiy member of the Pierian Sodality, and one of the editors 
of the ••' Harvard Advocate." and to all he proved a valuable 
and useful co-worker. His energy was not confined wholly to 
the college curriculum. His interesr in outside matters was 
none the less active for his application to his books A 
thorough gentleman, and gifted with a winning manner, he was 
a leader and a supporter in many of the outside interests so 
attractive to college life. In the summer after his graduation 
he started for Europe for a year's recreation and enjoyment, 
intending on his return to follow the business of his father. 
But on a visit to Rome he encountered the malarial fever so 
prevalent in that marshy district : and. though he had well-nigh 
recovered from its first attack, he was exposed to inclement 
weather on a journey from Rome to Florence, and suffered a 
relapse, which terminated fatally at Florence on 12 April. 1872. 
Thus closed the brief but brilliant career of him who. though 
the first of the class to die. seemingly was the one destined to 
take the highest position in its history. Obituaries were pub- 
lished in the •• Harvard Advocate '" of 26 April, 1S72, and 
brief notices appeared in the Boston daily papers. 



THE 



NECROLOGY 



OF 



HARYARD COLLEGE. 



1869-1872, 



CAMBRIDGE : 
printp:d for the association of the alumni, 

IJY JOHN WILSON AND SON. 

1872. 






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